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11 Sen. Francisco Tatad 47 Australia Dossier 4 BanInng Committee hears The Philippines senator is an Senate demands action on Bosnia. EIR on derivatives, opponent of the government's NAFfA population control program, which 48 From New Delhi Bankil1g columnist John Hoefle he charges is being implemented at India eyes debate in Japan on NPT. testified before the House Banking the behest of foreign agencies with Committee, at the request of a malthusian agenda. 49 Report from Rio Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez (D­ Freeing terrorists: Collor'sfinal act. Tex.)� and delivered a powerful 45 P. van Duijvenboden indicunent of the financial policies A spokesman for the Dutch Patients that are ruining the nation. 72 Editorial Union speaks out against the When will the bubble pop? euthanasia policywhich is facing a 6 'Inv�ible hand' grabs critical vote in the Senate of the billiQns from China's Netherlands in mid-September. banking system

52 Gen. Manuel Antonio 8 Currency Rates Noriega Prisoner of war General Noriega 9 Phili pine bishop and spoke with EIR from his prison cell p in Florida, about the U.S. invasion senator decry U.S. plan as 'demographic imperialism' of Panama and the growing . resistance of Panamanians to the "Petainist" regime that now rules 11 Ramos's birth plan is a their country. "I shall return," 'foreign import' Noriega vows. An interviewwith Sen. Francisco Tatad.

Photo aod graphic credits: Cover, 13 Malthusians predict end of page 19, UNRWA/M. Nasr. Pages world, push food policies 15, 33, 34, EIRNS/John Sigerson. that guarantee it Page UNRWNG. Nehmeh. 27, A review of the latest "Vital Signs" Page 39, EIRNS/Hugo L6pez report from the Worldwatch Ochoa. Pages 53, 59, EIRNS/ Institute. Carlos Wesley. Pages 23, 61, 67, EIRNS/Philip Ulanowsky. 15 U.S.,Unemployment Coverup

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36 War in Caucasus risks 60 LaRouche movement vows becoming internationalized to save U.S. from Russia all but controls the unraveling Caucasus, and will cement its The Schiller Institute and the control in the near future. Turkey Intemational:Caucus of Labor and Iran are both threatening to Committees met for their Labor help Azerbaijan against Armenia, Day conference, to discuss Lyndon as the crisis widens. LaRouche's groundbreaking new essay, "Hist<)ryas Science: Palestinian refugees at an UNRWA/UNESCO girls' 38 Mexican oligarchy panics America 2000." schoolin Jordan. Joint economic development of Pal­ estine and Israel will be essential to enable these stu­ as growers' rebellion dents to return to productive life in their homeland. spreads 62 Documentation Greetings to the conference from 18 Why the Israel-Palestine 40 Club of Rome: Twenty-five Dr. Nedzib Sacirbey, Personal accord must succeed years of malthusian fraud Representative in the United States With the historic agreement signed, of the President of the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina. its enemies are now gearing up to 42 Expanded Dutch drown it in blood. Only an euthanasia law: It's time to 63 Clinton strategic review approach based on infrastructure break up the debate ignores Rpssian danger, building can beat them. The "Dutch model" is being touted as an example of how targets TlitirdWorld 20 LaRouche: Israel-Palestine "compassionate killing" can economic plan is 'a very cheapen the cost of medical care. 64 LaRouche: Gore-Clinton pleasant deja vu' But it's nothing but Nazi plan is 'jttst cosmetics' euthanasia. 22 A chronology of 65 OBE the issue in Va. LaRouche's attempts to 44 The Netherlands must not gubernatorial race achieve a lasting Mideast legalize euthanasia! peace By Helga Zepp-LaRouche, 66 Schiller Ibstitute concert president of the German Civil honors anniversary of 24 Economics is at heart of Rights Movement Solidarity. March on Washington Mideast accord protocol I 45 'Care criteria' pushed for 68 Classical �bel canto' singing euthanasia 26 A peace plan in the true has becoQIe an endangered An intelViewwith P. van interests of Arabs and species Duijvenboden. Israelis Issued by Lyndon LaRouche in 70 National ews 50 NI August 1990. International Intelligence

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BankingCommitte e hears EIR on derivatives, NAF'J'A by John Hoefle

A warning of the impending collapse of the international with both feet into every harebrained, quick-buck scheme derivatives market, triggering the biggest financial blowout they could find. Citicorp made a killing in the 1980s, grow­ in centuries, was delivered by this writer to the House Bank­ ing almost as much in 10 years as it had in the previous ing Committee on Sept. 8, 1993, in testimony on the impact 168. This growth came, not from real economic activity, of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) but from the growth of a huge speculative bubble, in real upon the U.S. banking system. estate, junk bonds, derivatives,'and other paper transactions My appearance before the banking committee was re­ which looked good until the billis came due. quested by committee chairman Henry B. Gonzalez (D­ "Citicorp's great deals of the 1980s have become the Tex.), one of the few men in Washington with the courage spectacular financial disasters of the 1990s. The list, which to take on the international bankers and their scorched-earth includes blowouts such as Olympia & York and Citicorp's looting policies. humiliation in London after the Big Bang [the Oct. 27, 1986 "NAFTA is fundamentally a financial agreement, and to deregulation of the British stock market], keeps on growing understand it, one must understand the systemic crisis facing as the real economy dies. Citicorp has demonstrated an the banking system today," I testified. astonishing knack for losing money. It's the ambulance­ "Since 1978, the financial communityhas repeatedly in­ chaser of banks: Every time you find a disaster, Citicorp is sisted upon the deregulation of banks and other financial there. institutions, while demanding austerity and cutbacks every­ "Citicorp made a killing aU right -it killed itself. where else. Every time we have done this, it has led to "If Citicorp were headquartered in San Antonio, Mr. disaster, as the destruction of the airlines and the S&Ls, and Chairman, it would have already been closed and its officers of the U.S. work force attest. publicly humiliated and throwlil in jail. But Citicorp is not "In response to these disasters, the bankers demand fur­ headquartered in San Antonio. It's in New York, where a ther deregulation and deeper cuts. far different set of rules apply. "Now, with NAFTA, the bankers are demanding that "So instead, the government-or rather, the Federal Re­ the United States deregulate its international political and serve, which acts like it's the government, but is really financial relations the same way we've deregulated inter­ owned by the banks -launched the biggest bailout in U.S. ' nally. The purpose of NAFTA is to open up Mexico and history. eventually all of Latin America for unbridled speculation and "Three years ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of New looting, of the sort that has already devastated the American York took the bankrupt Citicorpover, putting it into de facto economy and bankrupted our banking system. receivership. Naturally, this was a secret action, since were the banks' depositors to know just how damaged their bank Deregulation killed Citicorp was, they would have run for the hills. "Whenare we ever going to learnthat the answer lies not in "Citicorp lied about its financialcondition, and published more deregulation, but rather in the abandonment of the policy phony financialreports. When Rep. John Dingell [D-Mich.] of deregulation, and the return to rational rules and regulation? revealed that Citicorp was technically insolvent, Citicorp "Take Citicorp, for example. Here's a bank that jumped angrily denied it. And so did the banking regulators, who

4 Economics 'EIR September 17, 1993 are supposed to serve the public, but who clearly serve the derivatives market?" Gonzalez asked. "Derivatives are not banks instead. so complicated. It's just a mega-Las Vegas. There are great "When the Texas S&Ls hid their losses, and the Federal dangers here. If NAFTA is passed, we'll be promoting the Home Loan Bank Board looked the other way, the Justice second-largest mega-Las Vegas." . Department created a task force to investigate, and poor Earlier in the hearing, Gonzalez a�nounced his intention [former FHLBB head] Danny Wall's career was ruined. But to hold furtherhearings on NAFTA, t9 question the negotia­ now, with Citicorp and the other big banks doing the lying, tors about who was involved, and how. the attack dogs of the Justice Department and the press are "I have found it very difficult sink:e President Bush an­ silent. Executives of the Texas S&Ls were denounced as nounced the agreement last December, to find out exactly the symbols of greed and excess, but nobody says a word what are the procedures, andwho pa*icipated in what were about Citicorp and John Reed. really secret negotiations," Gonzalez said. The difficultyof getting straight answers was exemplified Derivatives bubble ready to pop by the elusive Guenther. "We are on the verge of the biggest financial blowout in "Mr. Guenther, were you or any otiherCitibank personnel centuries, bigger than the Great Depression, bigger than the involved directly or indirectly in negotiations; that is, in these South Sea bubble, bigger than the Tulip bubble. The derivatives processes involving the financial, services chapter of bubble, inwhich Citicorp, Morgan, andthe other big NewYork NAFTA?" Gonzalez asked. "Did yoltl advise negotiators or banks are unsalvageably overexposed,is about topop. The cur­ did anyone from your bank? Did you review drafts of the rencywarfare operations of the Fed, George Soros, and Citicorp agreement? And if so, would you be ableto share with us the have generated billions of dollars inprofits, but have destroyed substance of your comments and adVlice, and to whom they the financialsystem in the process.The fleas have killedthe dog, were given? See ...we in the Congress don't have the and thus they have killed themselves. names of the individuals participating in these negotiations. "What is required, as EIR founder Lyndon LaRouche We don't even know who is in there, and I think that that's a has repeatedly stated, is a restructuring of the U.S. banking very important factor, and that's the only reason why we're system, including the nationalization of the Federal Reserve, going to have the second hearing." taking it out of the hands of the bankers and putting it back "I don't think I could give you the answer that should into the hands of the Congress as mandated by the Constitu­ really be the definitive answeron that," Guenther weasled; tion. It is the welfare of the people which is paramount, not he then admitted, "All through the past yearor so, I've been the maintenance of the speculative financialsystem. It's high attending weekly meetings" on the i subject. "Mr. McDo­ time we put the speculators out of business, instead of surren­ nough from the Fed would be there •...Our Washington dering to them even furtherby passing NAFTA. officehere has been working on this throughout ... and I'm "That's the issue. We'd better deal with it, and fast, while sure the answer is, yes, we participatedin some indirect way. we still have a chance." But I think I should undertake to get you a more precise At the conclusion ofthis testimony, the silence was deaf­ description than that." ening: One could have heard a pin drop. Clearly, few of the The financialcommunity is also worried about a blowout committee members, staffpersonnel, or journalists present of the derivatives market, which was made evident in an were accustomed to such forthright language, especially in opinion column in the Wall Street Journal by Wendy Lee contrast to the snake oil delivered earlier in the hearing by Gramm, entitled "In Defense of Derivatives," which ap­ Citibank's Jack Guenther, vice president and senior interna­ peared the same day as the Banking Committee's hearing. tional affairs officer. Guenther, in true banker doublespeak, From 1988-93, Wendy Lee Gramnj was chairman of the insisted that NAFTAwould create jobs in both the United Commodity Futures Trading CommiSsion, and promoted the States and Mexico. burgeoning market in derivatives by exempting them from The authority of my testimony was then underscored by regulatory procedures. Her husband is Texas Republican, Gonzalez, who put his respect for EIR's analyses on the Sen. Phil Gramm, whose fr<:emarket lIlostrums forthe econo­ record. "I've been reading Mr. Hoefle'sarticles for two and my give cover to the "mega-Las Vegas" that Gonzalez re­ one-half years," Gonzalez said. "He gets information I have ferred to. been unable to get. For example, statistics of the off-balance­ Wendy Lee Gramm's article complained that derivatives sheet liabilities of U.S. banks: We've been looking for those have been unfairly "characterized as purely speculative in­ statistics and couldn't get them." struments" that "pose grave risks with potentially dire conse­ quences for the whole financialsystem ." But her article reads Speculators running NAFfA negotiations more like a plea not to blame her for the coming catastrophe. The Banking Committee chairman then levelled his own "Most important," she concluded, "if another major default broadside against the derivatives speculators. or market shock occurs, we must a1l1 resist the urge to find "How can we sit here comfortably when bank profits, scapegoats, or to over-regulate what we just do not under- about half of them, come from the gambling known as the stand." I

EIR September 17, 1993 Economics 5 'Invisiblehand' grabs bill ions fromChina' s bankingsyst eql

by Cho Wen-pin

Lately in China, scandals alleging that banking executives These financiersand econqmists may tell Zhu at the mo­ siphoned off billions in state fundshave been reported repeat­ ment that the central bank shou�d act independently to control edly by western news media, with each reported embezzle­ money supply, balance sheets� and interest rates. They feed ment bigger than the last. Headlines such as "Biggest Bank­ Zhu deceptive views straight frpmthe textbooks of the Chica­ ing Scandal in History," "Worst Credit Fraud since 1949, go school of economics, whic� is responsible for the acceler­ for Countries Involved," or "US $28 Billion Stolen, Largest ating downfall of the economYiof the West. The World Bank Ever," dominated the coverage. and the International MonetarYFund (IMF) are advising Zhu Indeed, financialcrimes existin everycomer of the country, to borrow from foreign countties, or to lease land to them to with cadres up to the rankof vice ministerinvolved. Inthe first generate revenue. They nevet suggest, of course, issuing half of this year, officials said that more than 21,000 cases of credit for key national infrast�cture projects such as trans­ smuggling, counterfeiting, and fraudhad been solved. portation, water management and energy supply, along the 'l China's banking system is half-reformed, argue western lines proposed by Alexander IHamilton. They believe that bankers and more than a few from Hong Kong. So, they credit for investment has causqd China's economy's propen­ suggest, now is the time to implement a final"chop therapy" sity for wild up-and-down swipgs. In the Aug. 29 Wa shing­ (an alternative to the stinky"shock therapy")-type reform to ton Post, economist Paul Blus ein said, "Chinese bankers do eliminate the loopholes, as measures complementary to the not lend money based on whet er a project appears to offer a Communist Party's version of "chop therapy" which is cur­ good chance of repayment witt interest." rently chopping offthe heads of those who get caught stealing In the Aug. 25 LondonF inftcialTim es, Alexander Nicoll money fromthe state banks. wrote that Beijing has been "pn the World Bank's path to However, such financial crimeshappen because, after the cooling the economy." Byinf0 Fing the readers that the Japa­ Communists took power in 1949 and wiped out all socialinstitu­ nese had just extended more loans to China, Nicoll hints that tions holding a different ideology, the Chinese moral system Beijing now has a handle on iliFfinancial crisis, and that they degenerated to the historically low levelwhich tolerated canni­ should thank the international financial organizations like the balism during the Cultural Revolution.Second, as the power World Bank and Citibank, whifh recently opened the first for­ and health of senior leaders decline, the younger generation is eignbank headquarters in Shan$hai. With unbridled corruption grabbing money and preparing for the coming political calamity among the ranking Chineseexequtives, this opening for western which will result from the economic chaos and struggle for banks would pave a legal path fprcapital flight. power. Third, the moral vacuum as a result of the Cultural Furthermore, the IMF anq western news media such as Revolution is evidenced in the rampant lust for money and the London Financial Times participated in starting the fire carnalpleasure to be obtained byany means possible. which is burning up the local economy. It was the Financial Zho Rongji, senior vice prime minister, is being pushed Times, in the beginning of th�s year, that nominated Deng by leaders of various factions to control the chaos, and he is Xiaoping for "Man of the Ye�r" for 1992, for his marching desperately looking for ideas for such an unprecedented task. orders for a free market econ�my. In May, the IMF used a According to the Hong Kong newspaper Lien Ho Pao, Zhu revised Purchase Power Parityl(PPP) (a method of economet­ has told the Politburo that he is prepared to step down if the rics) to miraculously rate Chiqa the third largest economy in current reform and consolidation fail. the world. The World Bank aI,so raised its rating on China's economy. I Monks talk Only a couple of months afl:erZhu kicked off the 16-point Nevertheless, it is almost certain that Zhu will fail, if he austerity program to stabilize t�e bubble economy, the World follows the prescription that foreign bankers and economists Bank declared victory and cl�imed credit for directing Zhu (he calls them "foreign monks") suggest. Those are the same toward a soft landing, i.e., �eliance on the IMF. But the advisers who aggravated the economic crises in Ibero­ future of this fantasy is U. S.- Hfmg Kong dollarization, which America and eastern Europe. inches in daily throughout soufhern China.

6 Economics EIR September 17, 1993 Yuan flieswith the dollar According to Bank of China Vice Chairman Huang Next May, the Bank of China will issue its first Hong Diyan, the 360 branches of the banking group in Hong Kong Kong dollars, replacing Hongkong and Shanghai Banking and Macao already have assets of mor� than HK $600 billion Corp. and Standard Chartered Bank as the banks of issue. (US $77 billion), about half of the bapk's total assets, mak­ The idea, as a policy announced by the Bank of China a ing it the second officialcurrency. month ago, is to use the Hong Kong dollar as a substitute for Due to the Hong Kong-dollarizat.on of southern China, a freely convertible yuan, as demanded by the traders in real estate speculators are able to bOlfrow from Hong Kong Hong Kong, New York, and London. groups which may be front compani¢s registered in China. Here is how thefuture looks as China's economy is operated Thus, the government's plans for flPancial centralization, under this two-tier system: The Bank of China and the rest of typified by the recent banking overbaul, would have little the banksthat deal in dollars, on one hand, feed financiers in effecton these companies that are equ;.ppedwith Hong Kong the British colonywith Hong Kong dollars, throughfree trade dollars. Thefact that investmentin G�angdong province was with westerncountries who want to buycheap in China;mean­ only slightly slowed down by the aU$terity control program while the People's Bank of China and otherbanks keep injecting in 1988 and again today, proves th� point. By as early as cheap capital to the banks dealing with dollars,by investing in the beginning of this year, about one+quarter of Hong Kong yuan through the newly established Import and ExportBank, dollar bills (peggedat 7.7 to the U.S. dollar) were circulating offering trade credits, export credit insurance, and project fi­ in China. That is estimated at about, $20 billion worth. At nance "to give a strong push to China's tradeexpansion," as least half of that stays in Guangdong, pumping up the specu­ one Chinese bankingofficial put it. lative bubble. So when unemployed peasants work seven days a week As a challenge to Deng Xiaoping's black cat-white cat in the manufacturing firms which receive yuan investment pragmatism, Beijing's hard-line eco�omist Chen Yun has a fromthe People's Bank of China to produce tennis sneakers "bird cage" theory, which asserts that the economy is like a for export, they earn dollars that partially come back into bird: It dies if you hold it too tight, yet it flies away if you the Bank of China. The other part stays in Hong Kong as release control. The bird needs to stay in a cage, his theory merchants' profitand Chinese cadres' kickbacks. concludes. Now, to his surprise, wh�n China's economy is

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EIR September 17, 1993 Economics 7 shouldered by the "southernwind" (the Hong Kong dollars), part of the country fliesaway. urr So it is an irritating story to Zhu Rongji that the small C ency Rates, Guangdong city of Nanhai could use its municipally owned assembly lines to earn Hong Kong dollars and to build a The dollar in deutschem.arks $491 million officetower in the British colony. The city then New York late afternoonfixing borrows against it for real estate projects back home. Beijing I� ; couldn't even get a whiffof the cash. 1.70 � � - Ioo....i. The Hong Kong dollar (money free fromBeijing's con­ r--- 1.60 trol) not only contributes to the economic chaos in Guang­ dong province, but it also fuels the splitting apart of China, 1.50 which is the last thing Beijing hard-liners want to see. So far, there have been nine rounds of fruitlesstalks between Beijing 1.40 and London over a political reform in the colony proposed by Gov. Chris Patten. From the lessons China learnedin the 1.30 Opium Wars and the Sino-India war caused by the British 71ll 7128 8/4 8111 8118 8Il5 911 918 government,and for the sake of Taiwan's return, it appears The dollar in yen that at least a few Politburo members in Beijing have decided New York late afternoonfixing against the proposal from London, which would tum Hong Kong into a giant enterprise in which Britainacts like a CEO, 140 leaving Beijing only the ownership as chairmanof the board. 130 Bank of China may bankrupt China But all the fights withthe British governmentover con­ 120 trolling Hong Kong mean nothing if the Bank of China gives : up its stance on controlling Hong Kong dollars, allowing 110 part of China to become U.S.-Hong Kong dollarized. In this .... 100 -...... �-- sense, the Bank of China will bankrupt China. And this is 71ll 7128 8/4 8111 8/18 8Il5 911 918 the destiny which some of Zhu's foreign advisers are leading him to. The British pound in dollars Zhu is reportedly orchestrating four groups of economists New York late afternoonfixing and other experts in Baidaihe in northern China to draft the finalplans to reform banking, financialrevenue, investment, 1.70 and state assets management systems.Plans are to be ap­ 1.60 proved in the Third Plenary Session of the 14th Communist Party Central Committee, scheduled in mid-December in I.SO 100... .-. Beijing. If passed, the plans are to be fully implemented - '- nationwide in 1994, as the final stage of the fight to imple­ 1.40 f-.r'" ment the reforms, as proposed by Chen Yun, among others, to safeguard the system of a planned economy. 1.30 If Beijing is not highly alert to the U.S.-Hong Kong 7121 7128 8/4 8111 8/18 8Il5 911 918 dollarization while reforming the banking system, which is The dollar in Swiss francs necessary to control localism and prevent the investment New York late afternoonfixing craze in real estate and other speculative activities, then not only will China fail due to the lack of commitment to develop 1.60 its physical economy, but it will sink with the western mone­ tary system that is doomed to collapse, even before any real I.SO - � """"" development begins. - - The situation could best be described by a Chinese prov­ 1.40 erb: "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind." That danger is precisely the U.S.-Hong Kong dol­ 1.30 larization, wherein hide the immoral sharks such as George 1.20 Soros, who recently made $1 billion in one week of specula­ 71ll 7128 8/4 8111 8118 8Il5 911 918 tion against the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

8 Economics EIR September 17, 1993 Philippines bishop and senator decry u.s. plan as 'demographic iInpertalism' During the second week in August, Bishop Teodoro C. Ba­ he has written on this subject. "I aslced the journalist who cani, Jr., D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of Manila, charged that interviewed me to come back the next day because I was Philippines President Fidel Ramos's population control plan finishing a whole paper on the subject, but he did not come was the result of U.S. "demographic imperialism," because back; the journalists here would not publish my paper." EIR it was directly based on a 1974 U.S.population policyguide­ therefore has determined to fill this vacuum by reprinting a line. "We have a copy of a U.S. national securitydocument slightly abridged version of his document, which was drafted that shows all its designs are happening in the Philippines," on Aug. 13, 1993 in Manila: the bishop said. He was referring to National Security Study Memoran­ Bishop Bacani's paper on NSSM·200 dum 200 (NSSM-200), prepared in 1974 under the guidance NSSM-200. Very few people have heard about it. But it of National Security Adviser HenryKissinger. Following its stands for National Security Study Memorandum200 on the declassificationin the spring of 1991,EIR has played a cru­ subject of "Implications of Worldwide Population Growth cial role in forcing public awareness of this document, which for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests," a 198-page report drastically reoriented U.S. foreign policyaway from the tra­ from the National Security Council of the United States of ditional goal of fostering technological progress and econom­ America. ic growth, toward malthusian population reduction, and This study was issued on Dec. 10, 1974 and signed by which contained a list of nations deemed a threat to U.S. Henry Kissinger. On Oct. 16, 1975 Kissinger sent a confi­ national security because of their refusalto allow their popu­ dential White House memorandum where he recommended lations to wither. Particularly in the Thero-American coun­ that President Gerald Ford. issue a decision memorandum tries on that list-Brazil and Colombia-news of NSSM- confirmingthe need for "U.S. leadership in world population 200's existence caused a stir, and the issue was discussed in matters and endorsing the policy recommendations of the both country's congresses. But in the United States, the lid study with some minor exemptions." Amongthose additional remained tightly on until this past August, when Bishop Ba­ recommendations was a recommendation for a strong empha­ cani's charges hit the establishment media. sis on motivating leaders of key developing countries. "I'm really happy to hear it has finallybroken in the press On Nov. 26, 1975 a national security decision memoran­ there," Philippines Sen. Francisco "Kit" Tatad said in an dum signed by Brent Scowcroft was issued, endorsing both interview with EIR (see p. 11). "But the document was de­ the policy recommendations in the study and the additional classifiedJune 6, 1990; that's three years ago! It's a major points proposed by Kissinger. This memo was directed to the document that affectsU.S. policy around the world on a very secretaries of state, treasury, defense, agriculture, and HEW vital issue. The only conclusion I draw from that is that there [Health, Education and Welfare], lIIlld the administrator of is a kind of conspiracyto suppress this valuable information." the Agency for International Develppment, with copies to Bishop Bacani told EIR that the Catholic bishops in the the NSC Under Secretaries Committ¢e,the directors of OMB Philippines have just begun their campaignagainst Ramos's [Office of Management and Budget] and Central Intelli­ plan. "I told the press that what this was, was demographic gence, and the heads of the Council of Economic Advisers, imperialism; they are trying to make light of it. But we are the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Cduncil on Environmental preparing more on this." Bishop Bacani leveled his charges Quality. about the connection between President Ramos's ambitious We can take it for granted, theQ, that NSSM-200 was a population control policies and NSSM-200 in an interview very important document, and that it influencedU.S. public with a journalist that was then picked up by wire services, policy. , causing a big enough stir for it to be printed by the establish­ The study names 13 "key countries" in which there were ment press in the United States and Europe. But the bishop "special U.S. political and strategi¢ interests." The Philip­ added that so far no one had printed the detailed document pines was among these 13 countries� The others were: India,

EIR September 17, 1993 Economics 9 Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, Thailand, Egypt,Turkey, Ethiopia, and Colombia. Togeth­ Current events show clearly the er, according to the study, they account for 47% of the implementation of NSSM-200 world's current population increase. NSSM-200's strategy Curtent Philippine events The study expressed the need for greater expenditures cO a) Concentration on key The Philippines is targeted as one of to combat population growth in developing untries. Why countries the 13 key countries should the population growth of these countries be con­ b) Integration of population The population program of President trolled? The answer, basically, is that the fast growthof the factorsand population Ramos is integrated into Philippines population of these countries would be detrimental to U.S. programs into country 2000 and the country's development interests. development planning prolJ"am NSSM-200 says, "Rapid population growthis not in itself c) Increased assistance for Foreign aid admittedby the family planning services, government; donations from Johns a major factor in pressure on depletable resources (fossil fuels information, and Hopkins University, and U.S. AID to and other minerals), since demand for them depends more technology the government and NGOs on levels of industrial output than on numbers of people. d) Creating conditions Propaganda on overpopUlation, On the other hand, the world is increasingly dependent on conducive to fertility conttaception, the dangers of mineral supplies fromdeveloping countries,and if rapid pop­ decline pregrancy, etc.; the media offensive agairst church teaching ulation frustrates their prospects for economic development e) Development of a See lettersbetween Indonesian and social progress, the resulting instabilitymay undermine worldwide political and President Suharto and President the conditions for expanded output and sustained flows of popular commitment to Ramos. In his letter of June 10, 1993, such resources" ("The Secret Plan," TheCatholic Wo rld Re­ population stabilization Suharto reminds Ramos of the 1985 is fundamental to any ·Statement on Population Stabiliza­ port, April 1993, p. 30).. .. effectivestrategy tion, signed by world leaders. Ramos Translated into more simple language, this means that if sign$ a statement on July 15, 1993 rapid population growth frustratesthe prospects for economic where he says: 'We believe that the time 'has come to recognize the world­ development and social progress of the less developed coun­ wide necessity to achieve population tries, they may become politically unstable and this instabili­ stabilization and for each countryto ado�t the necessarypolicies and pro­ tywill prevent the expandedoutput and freeflow of minerals granils to do so, consistent with its fromthese countries to the United States. own culture and aspirations.' A similar reason is given later on: "Adverse socio-economic conditions generated by these and related factors may contribute to increasingly high levels of child abandonment, juvenile delinquency,chronic and their rate of population growth ("Exposing the Planners," growing underemployment and unemployment,petty thiev­ The Catholic Wo rld Report, April 1993, p. 39). The less ery,organized brigandage,food riots,separatist movements, developed countries do not protest against these population communal massacres,revolutionary actions, and counterrev­ control policies because, to quote Jacqueline Kasun again, olutionary coups. Such conditions also detract fromthe envi­ " ... you have to realize if they come out and say anything ronment needed to attract the foreigncapital vital to increas­ against these policies, there are millions and millions and ing levels of economic growth in these areas. If these maybe even billions of dollars in U.S.. assistance and general conditions result in expropriation of foreign interests, such world assistance, from the Wbrld Bank, the International action,from an economic viewpoint, is not in the best inter­ MonetaryFund, which will be cut off." ests of either the investing country or the host government Further, effort is made to let agencies in the targeted (ibid. , p. 30). countrywork for population control. To go back to the words "Here instability is feared because it will harm the envi­ of NSSM-200: "We must take care that our activities should ronment needed to attract foreign investments[read: the U.S. not give the appearance to the LDCs of an industralized business interests will not be able to invest] and may result country policy directed agains. the LDCs. Caution must be in the expropriationof foreign interests [read: U.S.business­ taken that any approaches in thi$ fieldwe support in the LDCs es may be expropriated]." are ones we can support within this country.'Third World' It is quite clear that the U.S.government sees the necessi­ leaders would be in the forefront and obtain the credit for ty of controlling the growth rate of the less developed coun­ successfulprograms." tries for the sake of U.S. interests. Thus it is not surprising Hence, one can understand why it is national and local that foreign aid should be tied to birth control. leaders who are at the forefrontof the campaign for popula­ According to Jacqueline Kasun, "The professed empha­ tion control. President Ramos, Secretary Flavier, the Family sis is always on development, but for a number of years Planning Organization of the l>hilippines and other NGOs the foreign assistance act written by Congress,has required [non-governmental organizations] are perhaps unwitting foreign countries receiving U.S. aid to take steps to reduce tools of U.S. interests. At leaSt this is strongly suggested

10 Economics EIR September 17, 1993 by the admission of the health secretary himself when he that Senator Ta tad was reached by telf!phone by EIR, he had remarked that "aid from international donors, particularly the just delivered a lecture on the subject at the Universityof the United States, hinged on a successful birth control program" Philippines. "I've been trying to poinr out that this program (Philadelphia Inquirer, July 26, 1993, p. 7). is not indigenous to the country; thar it has been imported It is most instructive to see how present events show from outside . . . to satisfy the strategic interests of the clearly the implementation of NSSM-200's strategy (see wealthy countries,"the senator told EIR's Ly dia Cherry. "I chart). think this is beginning to sink in, vtry slowly, among the I thought that the last vestige of U.S. imperialism was young people who have been brainwa�hed by the media blitz removed from the Philippines when Americans shipped out being conducted by the Departmentof Health right now. " of Subic Bay. But now it seems that U.S. imperialism has not only come back, but is being supported and propagated EIR: There has been quite a fightover the population control by the Philippine government and NGOs. This time it has programs being pushed on the PhiliJllpines by international come back in the shape of demographic imperialism, about agencies. which Pope John Paul II wrote in 1987: "It is very alarming Tatad: To make a general statementj the Philippine Consti­ to see governments in many countries launching systematic tution of 1987 chose to reject a provi$on in the old Constitu­ campaigns against birth, contrary not only to the cultural tion or the 1973 Marcos ConstitutiQn, which allowed the and religious identity of the countries themselves but also state to determine popUlation targets. ['hiswas debated in the contrary to the nature of true development. It often happens Constitutional Commission which dn�w up that Constitution. that these campaigns are the result of pressure and financing In place of that provision, the new Constitution decided to coming from abroad, and in some cases they are made a carry numerous pro-family, pro-marriage, and pro-life pro­ condition for the granting of financialand economic aid and visions. The preamble itself, in an unprecedented and unique assistance. In any event, there is an absolute lack of respect way, used the word "love"- "in a regime of love, justice, for the freedom of choice of the parties involved, men and freedom," etc. The other provisions are quite specific: The women often subjected to intolerable pressures, including firstprovision that I can mention appears in Article II, Section economic ones, in order to force them to submit to this new 12, which says that the state shall equally protect the life of form of oppression.It is the poorest populations which suffer the mother and the life of the unborn from the moment of such mistreatment, and this sometimes leads to a tendency conception.There are numerous other provisions in this Con­ toward a form of racism, or the promotion of certain racist stitution which talk about the sanctity of family life, the forms of eugenics" (SollicitudoRei Socialis, no. 25). inviolability of marriage, that the family is the basic, autono­ The point of this paper is not to deny the existence of a mous social institution, and so forth. i population problem in the Philippines, nor the need to slow I'd like to concentrate on that provision which I quoted down the population growth rate to a level truly conducive to previously, which says that the state shall equally protect the national development. life of the mother and the life of the UIIlborn from the moment My point is that we should make sure that the decisions of conception. Now the government ¢oncedes that that provi­ regarding our population growth are at least truly made by us sion does not allow abortion, but thelgovernment is tryingto and are not being made by others for us. Allowing others to split hairs by saying that since cOI),traception is not men­ dictate how our population should grow (or not grow) and tioned, therefore the government can undertake a program of what means we should use to regulate our population growth contraception. I take the position that when the Constitution is one of the most abject forms of subjection. says that the state shall protect the lifeof the unborn from the moment of conception, it is saying, that it shall do nothing to prevent women from �onceiving. Otherwise, the provision should have read, ".rrhe state shall protect Interview: Sen. Francisco Tatad the life of the unborn provided! the life survives the government contraceptive programl" That would be some kind of double-dealing; we do not believe the Constitution speaks in this manner. ... This does not mean the Ramos's birthplan state is going to prohibit private !individuals from using contraceptives, but at least it is ve� clear that the govern­ is 'foreignimport' ment itself shall not get involve� in pushing this. This a is the constitutional basis of my position. The Philippines senator who has been the most active in EIR: Does the fact that the Ramo� government is pushing blowing the whistleon the real agenda behind the overpopu­ this very hard, in spite of your Con�titution, mean there has lation myths is Francisco "Kit" Ta tad. On Sept. 1, the day been pressure from international fuQding agencies?

EIR September 17, 1993 Economics 11 Tatad: The government has been pushing the program ac­ EIR: In the Ford Foundation's 1992 annual report, a letter tively through the encouragement and obviously the support from the foundation's presidem devotes the first four pages of foreign funding institutions. The International Planned to what Ford is doing to stop population growth in Nigeria, Parenthood Federation people have been here; they have been Indonesia, and Brazil. received by President Ramos in Malacanang Palace. They are Tatad: That is unfortunate, butyou know, the myth contin­ reported to have offered, or probably given, some donations. ues to be propagated through \o1arious means. It started with And then, AID [U.S. State Department Agencyfor Interna­ Thomas Malthus in 1798. Mal thus himself saw the fallacyof tional Development] is very active in promoting its program his theory, and very few have cared to repeat what he said in the Philippines. It is the main source of funds for this since then until Paul Ehrlich came along in 1968 with his program. Population Bomb. I'm afraid that the otherwise respected The secretary of health held a planning conference with Paul Kennedy repeats the same theory in his latest book, population workers in July in Manila. At this conference it Preparingfo r the 21st Century. So the intellectual underpin­ became clear that the Department of Health was going to ning is still there. Paul Kenn�dy says that the population spend something like 160 million pesos on a media-intensive explosionis going to be one of the first problems of the 21st program to push population control during the next eight century.This myth, this hoax that has been discredited totally months in 10 pilot areas: 10 million for public relations, by knowledgeable persons and by objective facts, continues whatever that means; 30 million for the media, whatever that to be resuscitated. means; and 80 million for services. I findit also ironic that in the late U.N. document on the We raised a protest against this. We were assured by the migration crisis, one of the pro�sed solutions to the problem secretary of health that this was not money coming from is a more intensified population control program, whereas it the coffers of the Philippine government, but from foreign is clear that the migration crisis of the western societies has fundinginstitutions - namely AID and I think Johns Hopkins been created by the success of their own population control University [in Baltimore]. We don't really knowthe truth. I policies! There is a labor shortage in those countries - this is am asking for a formal Senate inquiry to findout about this one of the reasons there has been so much migration from money, where it is coming from and what conditionalities Asia, Africa, and Latin AmeriCla. And now the solution that are attached to this money. Even if the fundswere to come is being proposed is, "Stop YOUI1growth rate because we can't from foreign institutions, it still remains veryclear that they affordtoo many of you. Already, there are too many of you." are going to be using governmentpersonnel paid by taxpayers on government time. So this is still a government program. EIR: Are there conditionalitielSon population that are part It is quite objectionable that the personnel of the Philippine of the IMF and World Bank 103i11sto the Philippines? government are out there in the field pushing the foreign­ Tatad: The conditionalities have never been fully disclosed, directed, foreign-funded population control program. even to members of Congress. But, we must presume that it is there. Because if you read the NSSM-200 document close­ EIR: As early as 1970, when an official questionnaire on ly, it is very clear that the Wodd Bank is the chief funder of development problems was circulated by the United Nations, this program and that the AID is the chief implementor. One, virtually all of its member nations identified too small a I think, has the benefitof the doubt for assuming that it is one population or too Iow a population growth as a major problem of the conditionalities. impeding their development. Now nobody would say this. This gives you an indication of how strong this population EIR: How have other congressmen there responded to this campaign has been. NSSM-200 document? Tatad: It's obviously because the population control pro­ Tatad: In the Senate there are 24 members. In the last ses­ gram in the West has been so successful that it has caused a sion there were only two of us taking the same position on permanent recession of people in the West. And the women this issue, openly. As of a few weeks ago, at least four of the western industrial countries no longer would like to others have joined us ....They see that the majority of the give birth to children. We can only look forwardto a graying population is in favor of our position. and dying population, and probably we are seeing the begin­ ning of the death of certain ethnic stocks in Europe, for EIR: Some people are saying that coordination is needed instance. So it becomes necessary, as U.S. National Security between the Christian and Muslim countries to derail the Study Memorandum 200 shows, that something be done to upcoming U.N. conference on population that will be held contain the growth of the more fertile nations, to keep a in Cairo. balance. But of course we know this is a desperate move that Tatad: I would like to see that happen. Although separated will not succeed. The mostly Islamic populations do not by a number of things as far as doctrine is concerned, both believe in this. They are supplying the labor shortages of the the Catholic Church and the Islamic faith, I think, agree on this industrial countries in Europe. basic issue of natural law as falias procreation is concerned.

12 Economics 'EIR September 17, 1993 Malthusianspredict end of world , push fo od policiestha t guaranteeit by Rosa Tennenbaum

The Washington, D.C.-based Worldwatch Institute released year by an average of 91 million, according to the report, and a study of global economic trends in July, which has gotten in order to maintain the current level of food consumption, a great deal of publicity around the world. "Postmodern Mal­ agricultural production must constantly grow. Yet precisely thus: Are There Too Many of Us to Survive?" was a typical the opposite is now the case: All areas, from fertilizer pro­ headline, in a feature-length synopsis by institute president duction to irrigation infrastructure to final harvest figures, Lester Brown, published in the Wa shington Post on July 18. are constantly decreasing, so that, according to the study, The study, "Vital Signs 1993; The Trends That Are Shaping the 91 million people added each year can only be fed if Our Future," by Lester Brown, Hal Kane, and Ed Ayres, is the consumption of those who are already there is decreased. a malthusian tract, aimed to document the institute's thesis Additionally, the lack of that technology with which the that the growth of human population is overwhelming our rapid growth that existed between 1950 and 1984 could be "finiteplanet ." achieved, is preparing the way for "increasing distress." The On the contrary, as EIR and its founder Lyndon decreasing per capita grain harvest and fish catch have led LaRouche have shown, it is not population growth, but the to a "dramatic reversal in global supply of protein." This policies of the malthusians themselves that are destroying the change in direction already has clear and devastating conse­ world economy, causing widespread poverty and misery. quences for the world population. The statistics assembled by the Worldwatch Institute serve as an effective indictment of the monetarist doctrines that Fertilizer use have sucked investment out of the productive economy ­ The area of cultivated land is vel}'limited, and to cultivate industry, agriculture, infrastructure - and instead created a land demands much time and high i1llvestments. Despite that, speculative "derivatives" market in excess of $10 trillion in the harvesthas increased enormously in the last four decades. the United States alone. The reason for that was the intensificationof use of mineral "When the history of the late 20th century is written," fertilizer year by year. Since 1950, the area under cultivation the Worldwatch study forecasts in its opening statement, for grain was enlarged by one-fourth, while the use of fertiliz­ "the '90s may well be seen as a decade of massive disconti­ er increased by a factor of 10, frolin 14 million tons to 140 nuity. Long-established global trends that had been rising million. In 1950, an average 5.5 kilograms of fertilizer was for decades - such as the seafood catch per person, growth used per capita; in 1989, it was 28 kg. Thanks to this, twice in the nuclear arsenal . . . coal use, and cigarette smoking as many people could be fed per hectare as in 1950. rates - are now falling. Others that were going nowhere, or But since 1989, the consumption of fertilizer has sunk at best rising slowly, are suddenly soaring: the generation from 28 kg to 23.9 kg per capita, a decrease of fully 15%. of electricity from wind, the use of compact fluorescent In the most important agricultural producers, the United bulbs, and reliance on U.N. forces to keep peace, to name States and the European Community, fertilizer use has stag­ just three." nated since then, while it has drastically decreased in the This statement accurately describes the present situation: countries of the former Soviet Union and in eastern Europe. While the vital, highly productive areas of production Only in India and China has the use of fertilizer increased shrink, the unproductive and senseless areas of the economy slightly. The report draws the conclusion that "the era of are extended. The result of this policy is that supply per rapid continuous growth in world fertilizer use, which lasted capita of the population in all important areas of production from mid-century to the mid-eighties, has come to an end. has decreased constantly in the past years. Only the produc­ With the response of crop yields to additional applications of tion curves of bicycles, wind power, and so forth, are still fertilizer diminishing, it is no longer clear where future gains going up. in grain output will come from or whether they will be ade­ The trends in food production and supply shown by the quate." study are particularly stark, and it is those that we will The grain harvestincreased in 1992 by 3% in comparison consider in this article. World population will increase each to the previous year, but it was 8% smaller than the record

EIR September 17, 1993 Economics 13 year 1984. The yield of soybeans, at 114 million tons, Grain reserves down reached a new record, but per capita of the world population, The world supply of grain at the beginning of this year it stagnated. Between 1950 and 1979, the soybean harvest was 341 million tons, 19 mil�on more than the preceding increased yearly by around 6%; since then, it has fallen to year. Daily, 4.7 million tons of�rain is consumed by humans 1 % per year. Per capita, the amount increased from 7 kg to or used for animal feed, so that the present supply will suffice 21, and then sank to approximately 18 kg. This is a very for 73 days. In 1987, there wa� enough grain for 104 days in important decline, since soybeans represent the most impor­ storage. With a devastating plrospect for this year's grain tant components of vegetable oil and fat and a valuable source harvest, the picture worsens drastically, and the report points of protein. The bean responds less well to improved fertilizer; out that if the supplies fall b�ow the 60-day level, prices larger harvests are possible only if the land in cultivation is will become extremely unstable, even at times doubling, as increased. The "dramatic turnaround in the worldwide supply during the world food crisis of 1972-73. of protein" that is identified in the report is for the most part If we consider also the changes in yield, then we get a derived from that. more complete picture. The decrease of yield during the 1980s in 49 countries containiJng some 846 million human Protein requirements are growing beings, reduced the consumptipn of food in these countries. In order to improve the supply of animal protein to a "Since there was no substantilll drop in food prices nor a significant degree, the protein component of animal feed major increase in food aid to thejSenations, food consumption must be increased, and more animals must be fed with more per person must have declined among hundreds of millions protein. "With the grasslands that support cattle, sheep, and of people," the report correctl� concludes. Or put another goats now fullyused or, in many countries, overused, contin­ way: Had these countries had more capital, they could have ued growth in output of meat, milk, cheese, and other live­ better fed their people, and supplies of food would have been stock products is closely tied to feeding grain," the report drastically reduced. states. "To do this efficientlyrequires a protein supplement, typicallysoybean meal. Future gains in livestock output are Land use shrinking thus keyed to the ability of the world's farmers to keep ex­ Landin cultivation is stagf1ating all over the world, and panding soybean output, a difficult undertaking in a land­ the amount of irrigated land is d¢creasing. In 1992, some 695 scarce world." million hectares of grain was hatvested, 5 % less than in 1981. Meat production grew slightly in the year reported on, by The tragedy becomes truly cleanwhen we express this in terms 1 %, to 176 million tons; per capita of the population, howev­ of the world population. Since the middle of the century, the er, it sank by 1 % in the preceding year. Cattle herds shrank amount ofland in grain produjction has decreased. At that worldwide by 2%, which means that 2% less beef is available time, 0.23 hectare was availab1e per capita; today, it is only per capita. World beef production sank per capita to 9.4 kg, 0.13 ha, precisely one-half. The loss could be made up largely the lowest level in 30 years. Production of lamb stagnated, through better harvests that ar� attained by increased use of while that of hogs and poultry increased. The latter two are fertilizer and better crops. BetWeen 1950 and 1981, the land not pasture animals, and must be fed a great deal of grain. in grain production was increas¢d by a total of 24%, a growth Beef production cannot be significantlyincreased, according ofO. 7% per year . Since then, halvestincreases have stemmed to the report, because of the lack of pasture land. This fact, exclusively from the increased productivity of the land. In the ' in combination with a decreasing amount of grain per capita year 2000, less than half of the arable land will be available and stagnating yield of soybeans, "are bringing the era of per capita than in 1950, and it will further decrease in the rising meat consumption per person to an end," the report following decades because of population growth, according says. The meat supply per capita of the world population has to the Worldwatch Institute. W� should add that agricultural decreased, in any case, since 1990. policy,with its long-term destru,ctionof productive capacities The catch of fish,an additional important protein source in agriculture, darkens this picture even more. for human beings, decreased from 100 million tons in 1989 The institute emphasizes that three parallel developments to 97 million in the following year, and has stagnated since. in world agriculture are parti¢ularly important: First, the Overall, 17.8 kg of fishwas caught per capita, 8% less than amount of land for grain prodijction has shrunk worldwide in 1988, and less than 1968. The reason for that is that fishing since 1981; second, the increase in irrigated land since 1978 was restricted by draconian means. The European Communi­ has "dramatically" decreased; Imd third, many plants react ty, for example, decided to reduce its fishing fleet by at less well to additional fertilized. least one-fifth. That naturally has consequences for world In light of all this, how irresponsible, indeed criminal, is nourishment. "After adding an average of 2 million tons to the agricultural policy of the European Community and the the world's food supply each year from 1950 to 1989, fisher­ United States, with the forced r�duction of harvestsand shut­ ies may have ceased to be a major source of more food," the down of millions of hectares o( arable land, relegating mil­ institute declares. lions of people to hunger and st�rvation.

14 Economics iEIR September 17, 1993 u. s. Unemployment Coverup

"Want a job now" Last month

Part-timefor economic i reasons 6,531 ,000 Last month �, 489,OOO I Total 21j591 ,000 Last month 2�,657,OOO

Civilian labor force 128,370,000 Last month 128,070,000 Employed 119,710,000 Last month 119,301,000 Non-farm payroll employ", . 110,273,000 Last month 110,264,000

What the graph shows Total unemployed and partially employed The U.S. Labor Departmenfs monthly un- (1965-93) employment rate (U-5b) is based on a sta- (in thousands) tistical sampling of approximately 57,000 Part-time Total to households. But in order for someone be fot unemployed counted as unemployed, the respondent Civilian Official ''Want a econqmlc and member of the household (often not the per- labor unemployed Job now" reas ns underemployed son who is out of work) must be able to � state \'ihat specific effort that person made force % % ;% % in the last four weeks to finda job. If no spe- Year (a) (b) (bla) (c) (cia) (d) ,(dla) (b+c+d) (b+e+d)la I cific effort can be cited, the jobless person is 1965 74,455 3,366 4.5% na' 1,928 12.6% na' classified as not in the labor force and is 1970 82,n1 3,881 ignored in the official unemployment count. 4,093 4.9% 4.7% 2,198 i2.7"/0 10,172 12.3% But over 6 million of these discarded people 1975 93,n5 7,929 8.5% 5,271 5.6% 3,541 3.8% 16,741 17.9% are also reported on the quarterly survey in- 1980 106,940 7,637 7.1% 5,675 5.3% 4,064 ;3.8% 17,376 16.2% "want a regular Job dicating that they 1985 115,461 8,312 7.2% 5,933 5.1% 5,334 4.6% 19,579 17.0% now." These appear in the graph in dark 1990 124,787 6,874 5.5% 5,473 4.4% 4,860 :3.9% 17,207 13.8% gray shading. In addition, over 6 million more people are forced into part-timework 1991 125,303 8,426 6.7% 5,736 4.6% 6,046 :4.8% 20,208 16.1% for economic reasons, such as slack work 1992 126,982 9,384 7.4% 6,181 4.9% 6,385 :5.0% 21,950 17.3% or inability to find a full-time job. These 19932 127,735 8,859 6.9% 6,39Q3 5.0% 6,397 ;5.0% 21 ,591 16.8% people show up as employed in the official statistics, even if they worked only one hour 1. "Want a job now" categoryestimated as 3,350or 4.5% lor bar graph. i during the survey week. These appear in 2. Average to date 01 monthly seasonally adjusted figure. the graph in lighter-gray shading. 3. Weighted average01 quartedyfigure. compiled

EIR September 17, 1993 Economics 15 BusinessBrief s

Petroleum like Indiaand China have a clear advantage at postwar lows against the German mark. If since theyare the most industrially advanced the kroner collapses, the debt costs to foreign Russian oil investment among theThird World .. ..Indian technolo­ creditors explodes out of control."At the cur­ gycould be veryuseful to Iran since it has not rent rate, by1994 Sweden will have an annual needs are outlined simply been copiedfrom the West, but devel­ state deficitof 20% of GDP, the highest of any oped fromsignificant research efforts." OECD nation. Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chemomyrdin told the Greater Houston Partnership, a busi­ ness groupof about 500corporate executives, in Houston, Texas on Aug. 30, that Russia will Saudi Arabia need about $65 billion by the year 2000to stem Cu"ency Sp eculation its steep slide in crude oil production. He said British propagandizing that Russia was eager to improve the business climate for foreign investment. "You will see Salomon Bros. playing financial crisis a tum for the betterverysoon. . . . The process with Swedish state debt is under way," he said. The precarious financialcrisis of the Kingdom Chernomyrdin said Russia wants to deal Salomon Brothers investmenthouse in recent of Saudi Arabia is being intentionally played primarily with oil companiesthat can offerex­ months has been playing a high-risk game in up by the British,in an effortto undercut vari­ pertise in exploration, productionoperations , buyingand reselling huge volumes of Swedish ous Americall.-Saudideals and arrangements, refining,and marketing. He added that compa­ state debt denominated in non-Swedish cur­ aninformed observer told EIR nies seeking to do business in Russia must be rencies, according to financial sources in He recall¢dthat itwas the British who orig­ willing to take a long-termapproach, reinvest Stockholm. The state eliminated restrictions inally began the "Kuwaiti democracy" cam­ in the local economy, and supply the domestic on how much of itsdebt can be issued in for­ paignin the early 1990s because the Kuwaitis market. eign currencies last November when the kro­ had refused to give shares in Kuwait Invest­ Chernomyrdinsaid that at least $12 billion nerwasfloated and the Riksbank exhausted its ment Fund holdings in European companies is needed to rejuvenate thousands of idled foreign currency reserves in a futile effort to to the British. The British had hoped to use fields, which could return a profit within two hold the kroner within the Exchange Rate these "Kuwaitishares" as a way of penetrating to three years; $10 billion is needed to increase Mechanismagainst the attack of speculators. "united Europe," and when the Kuwaitis re­ oil and gas production in existing fields; and "Sweden has added a staggering230 bil­ paid military debts to the British in cash, the $5-7 billion is needed each year between 1995 lion kroner [roughly $29 billion] in foreign British began leaking scandals against the and 2000 for exploration of new fields. debt inthe past six months, as it has financed same "reactionary conservative Kuwaiti a ballooningstate budget deficitand borrowed sheikhs" whom the British had rushed to de­ abroadto rebuildforeign central bank reserves fend in the Gulfwar.Similarly now , the source afterNovember's debacle," noted one Stock­ said, the British are angry that the Saudis are holm banker. Total net debt in foreigncurrenc­ making various big arms contracts with the Trade ies todaystands at 625billion kroner,and inter­ United States� and that certain deals might be est on thisis runningat about 50 billion kroner made that are perceived to be against British Iran woos India fo r a year. interests. "Therecent flapover leaked IMP[Interna­ This source foresaw "hard times ahead" expanded cooperation tional Monetary Fund] country appraisal de­ for the Saudis, with possible conflictsand ten­ mands for a more severe governmentausterity sions erupting on its borders with Kuwait,Qa­ Thegovernment of Iran continues to wooIndia of SK 20billion in cutsinstead of the planned tar, Bahrain, and Yeme.n. with promises of expanded economic and tech­ SK 10 billion is focusing financialmarkets on nological cooperation. IranianAmbassador to the realityof Sweden's situation. It is not like India Ali Reza Sheikh Attar, in an interview the United States, simply becausethe Swedish with India's Economic Times, encouraged In­ kroner,.uniikethe dollar, is not the currency Health dian companiesto take advantage of the policy of world trade, so Sweden must be very, very of the Iranian government to favor Third careful should the kroner collapse, as this EC prepares medical World and Islarniccountries in matters of tech­ means the relative cost of servicing this huge nology andproduct imports. He noted that the non-kroner debt will explode out of control. aid effort fo r East Rafsanjani government has launched a pro­ Thecentral bank and the governmentare in an gram to revive industries through a five-year impossible bind. They must dramatically cut Medical assistance to deal with the health plan that involves impressive investments in interest rates to tryto bail out the banking sys­ emergencyin Russia and the Caucasus will be industry, agriculture, and social sectors. tem and stop the collapse of the economy and supplied by t� European Community,the Eu­ "Indian firmscan hope to take away a sig­ the bulgingunemployment costs to the state. ropean Commission in Brussels announced on nificantportion of these," he said. "Countries But this threatens a runon the kroner, already Aug. 26. The aid program will be carried out

16 Economics EIR September 17, 1993 i !

B�, iejly I

• EXXON ORP• said on Aug. 30 that it is fOrmJ g an international bid­ ding consorti)Jm to evaluate five Brezhnev, it is being triumphantly carried on � by relief organizations upon receiving funds blocs in the s utheast Tarim Basin and the'mandate of the commission. by young party publicists who now rule the p in the Uygur j utonomous Region of Vaccines to fight the epidemic spread of country and dogmatic proponents of market Xinjiang Prm ince in China for oil diphtheria, cholera, tuberculosis, meningitis, economywho had worked for many years on and gas explor tion. The acreage was and sporadic cases of bubo�c plague will be the staffof the CPSU Central Committee and first offered t� the China National sent to the worst regions, which, as an EC who now teach us how to regulate the ex­ Petroleum Co !po last spring; bids are spokesman explained, are mostly congruent change rate of the ruble in a closed economy." due by Oct. 3 . with the ethnic and otherwar zones on the terri­ He named IMP darling and Russian Finance I toryof the formerU.S.S .R. Minister Fyodorov. • THAI D'S Prime Minister The health situation of the entire popula­ Anyone who even mentions involvement Chuan LeekPurki led a delegation of tion in the East has reached an alarmingly low of the state in the economy, noted Diskin, is 200 on a lO-d yvisit to China begin­ to immediately denounced in the media. "I t level, opening the door spread of serious ning on Aug. ,25, the Bangkok Post diseases among larger parts of the population. would evensay that today, as regards ideology reported. Thel visit is aimed at ex­ Four out of 10 Russian hospitals are without of economic policy, we witness manic-de­ panding eco mic cooperation in can any warm water supply, which increases the pressivepsychosis. No one analyze the re­ trade and inv stment. Under discus­ danger that patients may contract additional in­ ality; everybody resorts to ideological sion is a pia to improve transport fections. This is occurring amid a deepening cliches." f links among hailand, China, Bur­ economic collapse and worsening livingstan­ Diskin emphasized that the Civic Union ma, and Laos dards throughout the East. has consistently presented an economic pro­ i gram based on building small and medium­ • UGANDA has an estimated 2 sized businesses. million peoPI · , out of its 17 million population, a ; infected with AIDS, according to he head of the AIDS Russia Information ogram. We apons Trade Civic Union calls fo r • BRITAI S plan, announced China role as arms Sept. 2, to al� ow private companies new economic program to manage 1 prisons, has angered supplier declines prison officia s, UPI reported. John The Civic Union groupingcalled for an eco­ Bartell, a spcjkesman for the Prison nomic program to prevent the destruction of China now ranks only a "distant tenth" as a Officers' Asspciation, said that the Russia, ata press conference on Aug. 26. Civic supplier of armsto the Third World, according prison servic is being starved of Union spokesman Diskin emphasized that the to a report issued July 19 by the Congressional funds. "We a e having to shed fully economic "shock therapy" policies of Yegor Research SeIVice. The CRS reports that since trained prison officers in order to cut Gaidar, the formeracting prime minister, had the Gulf war against Iraq, "the value of Chi­ costs and that n turn is leading to less led to precisely the sort of destruction which nese arms transfer agreementswith the Third supervision i� British jails." ! the CivicUnion had warned abouta year ago. World have fallen dramatically, registering "If we fail to take a rea1istic view [of Russia's only $100million in 1992 compared to about • GERMArIJ health officials are economy], by September-October very big $2.3 billion •••in 1990." concerned bepause a species of rat troubles will befall us," he warned. Chinese arms agreements with the Third that was vi ually nonexistent in Diskin characterized the ''winding down" World peakedat $5.6 billion in 1987, and Chi­ western Gem any before the fall of of investment in the state sector as "the Latin na "ranked fifthamong all suppliers in the val­ the Berlin W 11, has made a come­ Americanization of the Russian economy." ue of its arms transfer agreements with the back, coming from the eastern part of According to Diskin, Russia has irreversibly Third World from 1989-92." The Chinese the country. '!hisspecies is one of the lost 10% of its industrial potential, including armstransfers fell sharplyin 1991-92 "because major transmitters of bubonic some of its high-technology potential. Russiarepiaced China as Iran's preferred arms plague. "Over the last six months alone the real supplier" and Iraq was barred from arms pur­ i income of the population dropped another chases by the U.N. embargo, and there was • RUSS SOLDIERS' com­ 10%," Diskin said, with a majorityof the pop­ no arms purchaser outside the Middle East to plaints about e worsening food sup­ ulation living belowthe povertyline. "The nat­ offset the loss for China. ply are increa ing, Krasnaya Zvezda, ural resources of the country used to be ex­ However, China's missiles and "its will­ the Russian rmed Forces journal, changed for imported grain and butter, while ingness to sell them" has been of continuing reported Aug� 27. In some regions, today they are exchanged for Mercedes, Vol­ interest to certain Third World countries, the soldiers hav�'t seen fresh vegeta­ vo, and Porsche cars that areso plentifulin the report states, and its position on the Missile bles in S and often, fresh meat month�, streets of Moscow ." He added, "Although the Technology ControlRegime is "ambiguousat isn't availabl� for up to four weeks. destruction of the economy did begin under best."

EIR September 17, 1993 Economics 17 TIillFeature

Why the Isra�l­ Palestine ac¢ord

must succe�dI by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

The agreementmade public at the beginning of September between Palestine Libera­ tion Organization (PLO) chief Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres represents, in the words of American statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche, the last chance for peace in the Middle Ifst. Either the accord will be wielded to pave the way for durable peace in the regiop, or the potential it embodies will be lost, and the entire region thrustinto a spiral oflViolenceand decay. The decisive element determining which altema�ive will prevail is subjective: To what extent will the protagonists of the agreemen� gamer support from particu­ larly Europe, to unleash a dynamic of development �d cooperation in the region which will become unstoppable? Only when concre� projects, which are already on the drawing boards, are translated into real produ�ive activity, with Palestinian qualifiedlabor engaging in the urgent task of buildi�g houses, schools, hospitals, and the like, will the progress of such undertakings provide tangible evidence to the population - both Palestinian and Israeli - tJtat the concept works. The optimism and confidence which such visible improv¢ment in living standards will spark is the indispensable factor in ensuring that the ,nitial agreements fulfilltheir promise. Time is of the essence; results must be delivered, and fast. There are two distinct economic policy approaclts at loggerheads in this fight for peace. One is the Peres "Marshall Plan" approacij, which, judging on the basis of the published economic protocols to the agreeme4t, involves high-technology­ vectored infrastructure, a series of "great projects"iranging from the Dead Sea­ Mediterranean canal, to desalination plants, to inte�national electricity grids and rail and road networks. This is the plan which dovetails with the series of programs elaborated over the years by LaRouche and associ�tes. It also coheres with the programs elaborated by Palestinian economists such! as Yousef Sayigh. Such projects require massive financing, accor�ing to Sayigh, to the tune of $11.6 billion (in 1991 dollar value) for the period �994-2000. Earlier estimates made by Israeli economists such as Gad Yaacobi i� interviews with EIR in the

18 Feature EIR September 17, 1993 Palestinian workers in Jordan. Only real productive activity- industry, water management, infrastructure building, agriculture- can provide tangible evidence to Palestinians and Israelis alike, that the concept behind the new peace accord will provide a better life for all.

1980s ranged much higher, up to $25 billion over 10 years ­ would be strictly controlled by the World Bank and the IMF, a much more realistic figure. Peres himself in 1986 called for and would be disbursed only after a political settlement is $50 billion. Yet another study, put out in 1992 by the Pales­ reached. It can be assumed that suchI relatively paltry sums tine Studies Project, Center for Engineering and Planning in of money would be directed, if at all, to areas of speculative Ramallah, entitled "Masterplanning: The State of Palestine; investment: tourism, free trade zonJs, and the like. Suggested Guidelines for Comprehensive Development," The worst-case scenario, which many Palestinians and says that the future Palestinian state (made up of the West other Arabs rightly fear, would be if the World Bank and Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza) would require IMF were to dictate economic pol"cy. One plan, known as $30-35 billion over 10 years, one-third of which would go the Sedan Plan (named after the Israeli economist Ezra Sedan for housing and related infrastructure, to accommodate the from the extreme right party Teyh�), would erect under the living needs of a Palestinian population augmented by the cover name of "industrial parks" enterprises in Gaza and returnof 1.5 million refugees. Jericho, using cheap Palestinian labor in labor-intensive proj­ Financing for such projects should be regulated through ects, while Israel would maintain a monopoly on advanced state-controlled, Hamiltonian-style banking institutions, with technology. The introduction "intd the Middle East of this earmarked project loans. They also require significanttechnolo­ idea of Chinese coolie labor c lIed enterprise zones," gy transfer from Europe in particular, in dimensions which laRouche stressed, would be a disaster; "I can think of no only can be provided through a revival and reorientation of the better way to blow up Gaza." laRoucheEuropean "Productive Triangle"program. The only efficientway to avoid the potential pitfalls is to On the other side are the carpetbaggers, led by the Inter­ win the economic policy battle for the LaRouche approach. national Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. According "The urgent thing here," LaRouche reemphasized in a Sept. to the London Financial Times of Sept. 7, the World Bank 8 interview (see p. 20), "is that we bust move with all speed meeting scheduled for Sept. 20 in Washington will bring to immediately get these economf development projects, together representatives from Jordan, Israel, Egypt,the PLO, such as the canal from Gaza to the lJead Sea, going immedi­ and the Gulf states to discuss setting up a "Middle East fund" ately, because if we wait until we discuss this out, enemies of some hundreds of millions of dollars. The World Bank of progress and enemies of the huran race, such as Henry approach is based on a study, which is a proposal for a Kissinger and his friends, will be successful, through people survey of projects not yet defined or made public. As one like Ariel Sharon's buddies, in irltervening to drown this representative of the Trilateral Commission said, such funds agreement in blood and chaos."

EIR September 17, 1993 Feature 19 LaRouche: Israel-Palestine economic, plan vu' is 'a verypleasant de ja , Thefo llowing is taken from the Sept. 8 "EIR Talks " radio Marshall Plan for the Middle �ast, that is, something done intenliew with American statesman Lyndon LaRouche. The as an emergency relief exercist1> excepting all such things as interviewerwas Mel Klenetsky. IMF conditionalities, as was done with the Marshall Plan with Europe; and also we called it an Oasis Plan, to empha­ size the importance of water and water development and EIR: I'd like to ask you about a particular project that you water management projects as the keystone of any successful have been involved in for many, many years: the Oasis Plan, economic development program for that region. and of course this is the plan that is being discussed in the That continued. Unfortunately, the factional opposition Israeli-Palestine Liberation Organization talks at this point. to Mr. Peres prevented him from carrying that out as his What do you think needs to be done in these talks, and office intended, and now, 10 and behold, we find again that what are the parameters that you have been working on for Shimon Peres comes back in as foreign minister in a Rabin many, many years in these types of talks? government. He meets discreedy with the PLO leadership in LaRouche: Briefly, I started on this in April of 1975, at Norway and places like that; and 10 and behold, he comes which point I made approaches to both Israeli and certain forth with an agreement in which.,under the economic section Arab circles, a wide variety of Arab circles, including the of the proposed transition to peace, we have the first five Palestinians, proposing this as a basis for peace, and indicat­ points which are a straightforWard revival of the kinds of ing, as I indicate to the present day -warning also, in the proposals for immediate action which Peres's office and we same sense - that unless you start with an economic develop­ agreed upon, together with certain Palestinians, back in the ment package which is based on infrastructuraldevelopment Spring of 1986, to be specific. for the Middle East, that any attempt at a political solution of So it's quite a deja vu - a very pleasant deja vu. The the conflictbetween Arabs and Israelis, particularly between urgent thing here is that we must move with all speed to Palestinians and Israelis, will fail. immediately get these economic development projects, such Now, I have had more sympathy on that from the Israeli as the canal from Gaza to the Dead Sea, going, because if we side over the years, than I have from the Palestinians. Some wait until we discuss this thing:out, enemies of progress and Palestinians verymuch so; but the Palestinians and most of enemies of the human race, such as Kissinger and his friends, the Peace Now movement, have, up to now on the Palestinian will be successful, through people like [Ariel] Sharon's bud­ side, insisted that they had to get a political solution - that dies, in intervening to drown this agreement in blood and is, the political question settled -before going into a discus­ chaos; but now we have an opportunity. If we move fast sion of economics. enough to get the economic development started, we can I said, if you do that, you will fail. And over the years, have an agreement in the Middle East which succeeds where, they have failed. because of the Bush and Thatcher administrations, we failed We had two periods in which a leading faction of the to seize the opportunity when t�e Wall came down in eastern Israelis was moving in this direction. One was in late 1975, Europe. early 1976, when I was working with a number of Israelis as well as Palestinians, to try to bring this into shape. Then EIR: Mr. LaRouche, I would like your comments on some again it erupted in the middle of the 1980s, at the time that aspects of this Oasis Plan, or these new Middle East peace Shimon Peres was taking his tum as prime minister of Israel. talks in terms of economic programs. I know you have em­ During that period, we worked closely with Shimon Peres's phasized infrastructure development. I know also in these office, and several of his key aides, to try to move very discussions, they are talking about enterprise zones. What rapidly and concretely on economic development projects do you recommend, in terms of the general approach that which would be the basis for the sought agreements. should be taken, in terms of these parameters? Anhat point, I produced a number of reports, not only for LaRouche: There are three things which, broadly, are abso­ Mr. Peres's office, but also for the [U.S.] National Security lutely indispensable; and don't-don 't - iI!troduceat all into Council, that is, a report to both, on my proposals on this, in the Middle East this idea of Chinese coolie labor called enter­ which, for purposes of explication, we referred to it as a new prise zones. I can think of no better way to blow up Gaza

20 Feature EIR September 17, 1993 Dozens of fublications sp anning laRout:he almost two decades reflectLyndon WAfI1fj",! , , ����!* r-� UC;:>l- > "l(;�: '-?i �i� LaRouche unceasing effo rts to secure a economic basis for peace in Middle East. A Peace PI.an in the True Interests of Arabs and Israelis

than to declare it the kind of enterprise zone which my oid desalination. I would use things like ASEA Brown Boveri acquaintance Jack Kemp - an affectionate fellow, but (ABB) multi-megawatt units which thorium based or that wrongheaded on economics -would recommend. sort of thing, which involve no problem of nuclear prolifera­ The basis of economy is infrastructure, especially mod­ tion, but which work; and I would use installations of four em economy; and anybody who wants to put a factory in the units, to keep them verysimple - it's called a potato reactor. middle of an infrastructurally undeveloped swamp, should I would use that, and use them in units of four, so that you be certified as an economic idiot; and that's essentially what can shut one down whenever you fant to. Otherwise, you enterprise zones amount to. They are just coolie slave-labor use the power mainly for industrial and related load. But use projects, pure and simple, which are doomed in the long run, all your off-power, your excess capacity or potentially idle and which will blow up in any case. capacity for desalination. What's needed, is this: That will provide us power. TheI third thing we need, is First of all, the key to the Middle East is water. The density other forms of transportation, and I that involves railroads. of useable water for agriculture and human consumption, as Railways are the key. The Middle East is not a very big well as industry,per capita and per square kilometer, is the key area, but we do require railroads ifjwe're going to function to develop the Middle East. Without satisfying that require­ efficiently. I understand the French are interested in helping ment, you're banging your head against a wall; you'll fail. out with that one. The first thing are canals and desalination. The second We also need urban infrastructhre: sewage, sanitation, thing that's required, of course, is power. housing, that sort of thing. And we should then plug into that Now, the Palestinians, more than the Israelis, have been basic infrastructural development appropriate agro-industrial brainwashed -let me use the term advisedly - into saying, complexes industry. That is, a corbination of agriculture well, we don't want nuclear power, because then we will and manufacturing, which should be moved toward high­ lose the support from around the world of our lefty friends tech manufacturing. That would give us exactly what we the environmentalists; and the Palestinians have come, fool­ need. If we do that, it will work. admit we have to fight ishly, to rely upon their lefty environmentalist friends. over this issue of nuclear power, hich is indispensable in I can see no way in which the kind of success which we my view, but let's get the other thij gs going and then argue envisage can be done without nuclear power, particularly in about that as we go along.

EIR September 17, 1993 Feature 21 A chronology of LaRouche's attempts to achieve a lastingMideast peace

June 1967: Israeli preemptive strike against Egypt, Jor­ at the Iraqi ambassador's residence, is sabotaged by the U.S. dan, Syria, and Iraq leads to seizure of the West Bank of the embassy in Paris on the explidit orders of Secretary of State Jordan River, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Over 1 Kissinger. million Palestinian Arabs fall under Israeli control. November 1975: LaRoucjhe meets in New York with October 1973: The "Yom Kippur" Arab-Israeliwar, ma­ Israeli leader Abba Eban on his proposals. nipulated by U.S. Secretaryof State Henry Kissinger, trig­ June 1976: Syria invades t.ebanon. gers massive increase in the world price of oil. May 1977: Likud goverttment of Menachem Begin March 1975: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia is assassinated comes to power in Israel. : shortly after a violent meeting with Secretary of State Kis­ August 1977: LaRouche :writes an article, "A Future singer over Saudi policy toward Israel and the price of oil. For the Middle East," which is published in the Paris-based April 1975: Kissinger triggers 17-year Lebanese civil Israeli newsletter Israel & Palestine. "In general, without war. That month, the U.S. State Department leaks the exis­ direct negotiations between I�rael and the PLO there can tence of a contingency plan to take over "unstable" Saudi be no Middle East settlement for the foreseeable immediate and other oil-based sheikdoms in order to protect U.S. oil future. We all know, all too well, the subjective obstacles to supplies. such direct negotiations; we bught to know that we must April 1975: LaRouche travels to Baghdad, Iraq for meet­ rapidly eliminate the obstacle� to such direct negotiations. ings with leaders of the Iraqi Baath Party. Speaking in Bonn, ...The objective basis for a M.E. settlement is the econom­ West Germany en route back to the United States, he releases ic-development package we h,ave indicated. Any other ap­ his proposal for an International Development Bank (IDB), proach will fail, will be quicIfly degraded into farce - and calls for a sweeping financial reorganization of the world probable war. However, it is not mere material advantage in monetary system, an orderly process of debt moratorium, itself which provides the basis for peace. It is the fact that and the establishment of the IDB as a centralized fund for a commitment of the governments to realize high rates of long-term, low-interest credits for infrastructural develop­ scientific and technological progress fosters humanist out­ ment. The proposal also details a plan for the industrial and looks." agricultural development of the region stretching from Syria November 1977: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat trav­ to Afghanistan, and from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterra­ els to Jerusalem and offers pea�e in exchange for withdrawal nean Sea. of territories seized by Israel in the 1967 war. LaRouche states in that proposal, "With an IDB policy March 1978: LaRouche writes a strategic evaluation re­ in the wind, the pro-peace faction of the Mapai should soon port entitled "A Machiavellian Solution for Israel," which become hegemonic. . . . The Israelis and key Arab states emphasizes: "Without a massive economic development pro­ could readily agree on durable terms of continued negotiation gram for the Middle East, no political basis for peace exists concerning the Palestinian Question within the context of in that region." Addressing \ Israel's criminal practices, immediate firm agreement for cooperation in development LaRouche writes, "The test of the qualities of a shepherd is policies .. ..Within such a policyframework, the Near East the power to look directly at the full measure of evil the Jew will tolerate no continuation of keeping any section of Israelis have perpetrated in Leb�non, the Israelis' willingness the Arab population in oppressed backwardness; this pro­ to plunge the world into Armageddon rather than be 'forced' vides the positive basis for finallysettling the Palestine issue to regard the Arab as a human being, and once seeing this in to the satisfaction of Jews and Arabs generally, including of all its undiminished horror, nonetheless nod, and say that course, the Palestinian Arabs." this solution we propose for Israel is all the more imperative." November 1975: LaRouche and associates organize a September 1978: Camp David agreement among Israel seminar in Paris on his Middle East development plan, with and Egypt arranged by Carter administration, which is sup­ the planned participation of France and Middle East and posed to lead to withdrawal of Israel from the Occupied African nations. The seminar, which was to have been held Territories within fiveyears .

22 Feature . EIR September 17, 1993 • February 1979: Carter administration, with British and Israeli backing, installs Ayatollah Khomeini into power in Iran. September 1979: Iran-Iraq war begins. Israel cooperates with the United States and Britain to supply arms to Iran; externally manipulated war lasts eight years, killing 800,000 people. November 1979: Fifty-three U.S. hostages are seized by Iran; they will be held 444 days. Spring 1980: LaRouche's presidential campaign com­ mittee circulates a white paper titled "U.S. Middle East Policy." June 1980: A LaRouche presidential white paper, "This Camp David Fiasco Must Be Scrapped," is issued. October 1980: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assas­ sinated. June 1982: Israel invades Lebanon with U.S. go-ahead, part of the plan to divide Lebanon and the region generally between a "Greater Israel" and a "Greater Syria." September 1982: President Ronald Reagan calls for Mideast peace initiative based on land for peace. May 1983: A Cairo conference on Mideast development organized by LaRouche and his associates is abruptly can­ celed through massive pressure on the Egyptiangovernment Shimon Peres during a U. S. visit in 1985, shortly before he by Henry Kissinger. announced his "Ma rshall Plan " proposal. September 1983: PLO leader Hisham Sartawi, an advo­ cate of land for peace, is killed in Portugal. December 1983: LaRouche calls on Israel to work with airports, and seaports." Arnon Gafny, the former governor PLO leader Yasser Arafat to bring peace to the region. "Mr. of the Bank of Israel widely vie�ed as the Israeli author of Arafat is the established leader ofwhat is in fact a government the Peres Plan, tells EIR that providing $3 billion a year in in exile of the Palestinian Arabs. . . . If we are going to deal development grants would "aIIo subsidizing big projects, . successfully with the Palestinian Arab people, it is with Mr. which must be, by nature, implemented by governments or Arafat's leadership that we must deal." LaRouche issues inter-governmental agencies." "Proposal to Begin Development of a Long-Range Economic August 1986: LaRouche extends full support for the re­ Development Policy for the State of Israel," circulated wide­ newed proposal of Shimon Peres for a new Marshall Plan for 1 ly there by LaRouche representatives sent for that purpose. Mideast-wide development. "What Mr. Peres, and also the 1984: Three trips to Israel by LaRouche representatives, authors of a paraIIel Egyptian proposal, have presented as a who argue for his development proposals. 'New Marshall Plan' policy, addresses twoimmediate prob­ April-June 1986: Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres lems suffered by both Israel and by moderate Arab nations, calls upon the OECD to pool resources for a $25-30 billion Egypt most notably: the depressive effect of a debt-accumu­ Mideast development fund over the next 10 years. Peres's lation that is no longer payable, and the psychological impact call, which is rejected by the West, is dubbed the Peres of economic decay upon the popuiations and political stabili­ Plan or Marshall Plan for Mideast development. LaRouche ty of both Israel and Arab nations .. ..The problem has been delegates travel to Israel to interviewpropon ents and oppo­ aggravated to the extreme, by the lunatic 'conditionality' nents of plan. The debate is featured in EIR's June 20 issue. policies of the International Monetary Fund.. ..'N ew Mar­ In an interview there, Israeli Economics Planning Minister shaII Plan' means orderly restru9turing of the indebtedness Gad Yaacobi (currently Israel's ambassador to the U.N.) of these nations, combined with elimination of meddling into states that "the general idea is that the Mideast will be more the internal affairsof these nation by the IMF." developed from the economic point of view and will increase July 1987: LaRouche meets in Ankara with Turkish the average standard of living of the people who live in the Prime Minister Turgut (hal and s6veral members of the cabi­ area . . . building factors will appear which will contribute net. Discussion centers on economic development of the re­ to decreasing the military tension." Yaacobi calls for the gion, especiaIIy water developmdnt. "development of educational systems, vocational training, December 1987: Intifada, th9 Palestinian revolt in Israeli irrigation, energy, roads, R&D, industrial plants, housing, Occupied Territories, begins; Isr eli Army begins systematic

EIR September 17, 1993 Feature 23 age further joint exploitation of other energy resources. This program may also provide for the construction of a Economics is at heartof petrochemical industrial complex in the Gaza Strip and the construction of oil and gas pipelines. Mideastaccord protocol 4. Cooperation in the field of finance, including a Financial Development and Action Program for the en­ Thefo llowingis the economic sections ofthe draft agree­ couragement of intfjrnationalinvestment in the West Bank ment on Palestinian "self-rule. " and Gaza Strip, and in Israel, as well as the establishment of a Palestinian Development Bank. 5. Cooperation in the fieldof transport and communi­ cations, including a program, which will defineguidelines Annex III for the establishment of a Gaza Sea Port Area, and will provide for the establishing of transport and communica­ Protocol on Israeli-Palestinian Cooperation tions lines to and from the West'Bank and the Gaza Strip in Economic and Development Programs to Israel and to other countries. In addition, this program The two sides agree to establish an Israeli-Palestinian will provide for carryingout the necessary construction of Continuing Committee for Economic Cooperation, focus­ roads, railways, communication lines, etc. ing, among other things, on the following: 6. Cooperation in the fieldof trade, including studies, 1. Cooperation in the field of water, including a Water and Trade Promotion Programs, which will encourage Development Program prepared by experts from both local, regional and inter-regional trade, as well as a feasi­ sides, which will also specifythe mode of cooperation in bility study of creating free trade zones in the Gaza Strip the management of water resources in the West Bank and and Israel, mutual access to these zones, and cooperation Gaza Strip, and will include proposals for studies and in other areas relating to trade and commerce. plans on water rights of each party, as well as in the 7. Cooperation in the field of industry, including In­ equitable utilization of joint water resources for imple­ dustrial Development Programs� which will provide for mentation in and beyond the interim period. the establishment of joint Israeli-Palestinian Industrial Re­ 2. Cooperation in the field of electricity, including an search and Development Centers, will promote Palestin­ Electricity DevelopmentProgram, which will also specify ian-Israeli joint ventures, and provide guidelines for coop­ the mode of cooperation for the production, maintenance, eration in the textile, food, pharmaceutical, electronics, purchase and sale of electricity resources. diamonds, computer, and science-based industries. 3. Cooperation in the field of energy, including an 8. A program for cooperation in, and regulation of, Energy Development Program, which will provide for labor relations and cooperation in social welfare issues. the exploitation of oil and gas for industrial purposes, 9. A Human Resources Development and Cooperation particularly in the Gaza Strip and Negev, and will encour- Plan, providing for -joint Israeli-Palestinian workshops

killing and maiming of Palestinian civilians. rather than the United States, and sets conditions for a new August 1988: Iraq and Iran announce a cease-fire. An Arab-Israeli war. Some 1 million Soviet Jews are fu nneled Anglo-American plan to foster a new war in the region be­ into Israel over the next three years, altering the demography comes operational. of the region. August 1988: LaRouche presidential campaign issues March 1990: LaRouche warns of British plot to spark a "A New Middle East Policy Is Urgent," which is circulated new Mideast war. widely in region. June 1990: Israeli war-government of Yitzhak Shamir December 1988: PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat issues comes to power; United States breaks off formal talks with statement recognizing Israel's right to exist. the PLO. October 1989: Israeli economy goes into tailspin; an July 1990: LaRouche warns of British and Israeli efforts Israeli privatization scheme increases Israeli dependency on to trigger a new Mideast war; issues "Oasis Plan," again Anglo-American finance. calling for emergency program to economically develop the December 1989: Bush-Gorbachov summit at Malta pro­ Mideast. vides for dividing up the Middle East between a Greater August 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait following massive Israel and a Greater Syria. The summit accelerates plans to threats against Iraq by Israel, and following U.S. and British force some 1 million emigrating Soviet Jews to go to Israel promises that they would not oppose the invasion. The Unit-

24 Feature EIR September 17, 1993 and seminars, and for the establishment ofjo int vocational ing and Construction Program. training centers, regional institutes and data banks. 2. A Small and Medium Busin ss Development Plan. 10. An Environmental Protection Plan, providing for 3. An Infrastructure Develop ent Program (water, joint and/or coordinating measures in this sphere. electricity,transportation and com unications, etc.). 11. A program for developing coordination and coop­ 4. A Human Resources Plan. eration in the field ofco mmunications and media. 5. Other programs. 12. Any other programs of mutual interest. B. The Regional Economic Deve opment Program may consist of the following elements: 1. The establishment of a Mi Ie East Development Annex IV Fund, as a first step, and a Mid Ie East Development Bank, as a second step. Protocol on Israeli-Palestinian Cooperation 2. The development of a joint sraeli-Palestinian-Jor­ Concerning Regional Development danian Plan for coordinated explo tation of the Dead Sea Programs area. 1. The two sides will cooperate in the context of the 3. The Mediterranean Sea (Ga a) - Dead Sea Canal. multilateral peace efforts in promoting a development pro­ 4. Regional Desalinization an other water develop­ gram for the region, including the West Bank and Gaza ment projects. Strip, to be initiated by the G-7. The parties will request 5. A regional plan for agricul ural development, in­ the G-7 to seek the participation in this program of other cluding a coordinated regional ef£ rt for the prevention of interested states, such as members of the Organization for desertification. Economic Cooperation and Development, regional Arab 6. Interconnection of electrici grids. states and institutions, as well as members of the private 7. Regional cooperation for t e transfer, distribution sector. and industrial exploitation of ga oil and other energy 2. The Development Progam will consist of two ele­ resources. ments: 8. A Regional Tourism, Trans ortation, and Telecom­ a. an Economic Development Program for the West munications Development Plan. Bank and Gaza Strip. 9. Regional cooperation in ot r spheres. b. a Regional Economic Development Program. c. The two sides will encourage t e multilateral working A. The Economic Development Program for the West groups, and will coordinate towar s its success. The two Bank and Gaza 'Strip will consist of the following ele­ parties will encourage inter-sessio al activities, as well as ments: prefeasibility and feasibility stud es, within the various 1. A Social Rehabilitation Program, including a Hous- multilateral working groups.

ed States and Britain use the invasion as a pretextto occupy Institute issues a policY proposal titled "For a True Fourth Saudi Arabia. U.N. Development Decade: A oncrete Solution to the September 1990: In an EIR Sp ecial Reporttitled Bush 's World Economic Breakdown Cri is; a Discussion Paper for Gulf Crisis: The Beginning of Wo rld Wa r III, laRouche the 46th Regular Session of the .N. General Assembly." stresses again that ''without a policy of development, the LaRouche's "Oasis Plan" is prom nently featured. Arabs and Israelis have no common basisfo r political agree­ October 1991: Madrid peace onference brings together ment; no common interest. " Israel and its Arab neighbors un er the sponsorship of the January 1991: Anglo-American-Ied U.N. coalition United States and the Soviet Unio . bombs Iraq, kills 200,000 people, destroys $100 billion of March 1992: A full-page a rtisement by LaRouche's infrastructure. presidential campaign committe appears in the March 6 April 1991: laRouche's presidential campaign widely issue of the Wa shington Times, ti ed "laRouche was Right; circulates a 32-page pamphlet titled "Demand Development Great Projects to Develop the W rid." Among the 18 Great in the Middle East! Stop Bush's Genocidal New World Projects referenced is the Mideas Oasis Plan. Order." July 1992: laRouche repres ntatives in Jordan widely September 1991: Under the direction of Lyndon distribute LaRouche proposals 0 regional economic devel­ LaRouche and his wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the Schiller opment.

EIR September 17, 1993 Feature 25 A peace planin thetrue int erest: s of Arabs and Israelis by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

u.S. statesman, economist, and politicalprisoner Lyndon pant in the drug trade, not as ani exporter of illegal or black LaRouche made the fo llowing remarksfrom prison in Roch­ diamonds, but as a producer ofjvegetables, machine tools, ester, Minnesota on Aug. 21, 1990. Theyare rep rintedfrom technology, and so forth), and t-\le Arab similarly, that both our Aug. 31, 1990 issue. have a fundamental, common in�erest in the progressive de­ velopment of the fertility and tf:cundity of the land of the Immediately, the present war in the Middle East is a direct entire region. On that basis, for Ithe sake of those respective reflection of a British intelligence control over Israel, and and common economic interes s, a political settlement is orchestration of the situation in the Arab world. The Arab possible. Without that element,, the idea of political settle­ world as a whole was manipulated, together with Israel. ment is an old fool's coughing iqto the wind. Saddam Hussein, and Iraq as a whole, were put into a comer, On the Arab side, we have f�und the most common and where they had no choice but to react in a certain way, and most powerful corrupting ideOl ' ical influence,supplied by when they reacted in a certain way, they were put into a the British, to divert many Ara away from their true self­ comer again, and forced to react accordingly. interest, is the British indoctrin$ ion of Arabs in the physio­ The essence of the matter, as everypatriotic Arab knows, cratic doctrine: that the exploi*ion of a natural resource, and many such patriotic spokesmen have said, is the British oil, was the proper present and ifuture destiny of the Arabs have worked successfully, over decades, to ensure that the forever, that economic developqtentwas not necessary; and Arabs were prevented from using revenues frompetrol eum, thus, the British have cultivated� Icertain, shall we call them, for economic and related development, of the Arab popula­ physiocratic tendencies among abS' and have manipulated tion as a whole. Arabs, by virtue of these physioc atic tendencies, which have However, let's look at another aspect of this. Let's as­ treated technology as somethin which is simply imported, sume that this British policywere defeated, as it must be, if at choice and at pleasure, out 0 the proceeds of petroleum there's ever to be peace in the Middle East. sales abroad. What do we do? We must replace these physi�cratic ideas with the notion We have to correct some errors which are fairly popular, of the exchange of petroleum forltechnology- technology to among, respectively, Arab and Israeli populations in the upliftthe individual Arab, technplogy to increase the fecun­ Middle East. And we must structure, at the same time, a dity and fertility of every squar� kilometer of Arab soil, in general policy plan of development which is the foundation terms of agricultural and industtial, and hence, also, infra­ for such peace. structural potential. I indicate qelow some guiding princi­ For years, our proposals for economic development have ples, which properly govern ant sound economic develop­ been repeatedly brushed aside with the advice that a political ment plan. settlement must come first, and then an economic coopera­ i tion for general development of the region might become The tactics of economic g+ography possible. First, let's look broadly at t�e tactics, which we might call the tactics of economic geography. There is no purely 'political' solution One could definethe proper ,pproach to development of We have repeatedly said, and rightly so, that that line of the Middle East, if no persons li�ed there presently, as if, for argument is wrong, and even dangerously absurd. The simple example, we were planning the s�ttling of Mars: an uninhab­ reason is, that without a policy of economic development, ited planet, by aid of artificialen tironment, and so forth. We the Arabs and Israelis have no common basis fo r political could definethe futureciti es, the!futuretopography of Mars, agreement; no common interest. fromthe standpoint of its geograVhy, and a few principles of It is only as the Israeli - not as a Zionist, but as an Israe­ topology. ! li - findshis or her interest to be the economic development The primary considerations� which we would bear in of Israel as a nation (not as an arms exporter, not as a partici- mind for the Middle East, presunjling nobodylived there, but I 26 Feature ,IR September 17, 1993 we were going to settle people there, would be water, power, transportation, and the location of urban centers. Now, it doesn't mean you have to have the water there. You simply have to know you need the water. And, you have to decide on the proper courses by which the water will be transported, or distributed, (we're talking about fresh water, of course), such as to make the average square kilometer of land most fertile, or most fecund. That doesn't mean a uni­ form distribution of water; that means what we might call the equivalent of a least-action distribution of water, to get the highest average value of land, not the highest uniform value of land. We also know that we require a certain amount of power, per square kilometer, to develop that square kilometer to a certain level of productivity for various kinds of land use, such as reserveland; wildernessland (those are two different kinds of land uses); pastureland, as opposed to agricultural land in agriculture; forest land; land use for private habita­ tion; land use for commercial functions; or land use for heavy or light industrial functions. In each of these cases, we require a somewhat different density of power supplied, per hectare or per square kilometer, and per capita. Then, transportation: We require a least-action pathway of transportation, in terms of ton-miles per hour, essentially, as one parameter to be used. And, we generally find that transportation will tend to follow the course of water, because Heavily armedIsra eli soldiers in the (Srtlell-OCCUJ;'lea territories of water transport, rail transport, highway transport, and air the West Bank have become Realization of the Oasis transport, are all interrelated, in terms of their relative func­ Project would make such scenes a of the past. tions, within an economy. Also, the transportation of materi­ als, whether by pipelines, or transportation of power, or transmission of power, all tend to follow most conveniently Now, in some parts, we a very high cost, in the a least-action pathway, which tends to bring these various Middle East, for water. And, we produce water, with the modes of movement into a convergence, along certain lines aid of high-temperature nuclear reactors of movement, just as water is moved along certain lines of (HTGRs), much, much cheaper, a fraction of what it costs movement. And, these two, and water, tend to converge. to deliver presently. And, since is the main bottleneck I Now, the network of water flows and transport flows, for development in the region, supply of water by the and the network of required energy flows, defines certain optimal method, that is, taking of high-tempera- nodal points in the entire landscape, which are the proper ture nuclear reactors, is the best of supplying this. sites of present or future urban centers. Urban centers are So, we have a course. This course, from the Medi- characterized as nodes of transportation, and also, nodes terranean and Dead Sea, V,",',VU.l"1" an industrial pathway; it of distribution of power, that's the way a healthy physical becomes, for purposes of also an area of urban economy functions. development, of industries, and agriculture in the area close to the water - more - and so forth and so on. Bringing the Dead Sea to life And, that is the sort of thing one I'll just give one example of what this leads to, in the Now, let's go to a second Middle East. It has been long discussed, that there should be a canal The natural European cut from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, and that the Let's take the example of water flowfrom the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea would posal for a "Productive improve that area, particularly if we lined the canal with a by sort of a spherical triangle number of nuclear plants. And the nuclear plants do not Vienna, and up from Vienna, by merely use distilled water, distilled or processed from the to Berlin. salt water flowing in, for their own functions, but they are This is an area of the greatest \-,V'"'"" ,UL1 generally producers of water. population density, industrial

EIR September 17, 1993 Feature 27 i in Europe. But, that's not accidental. This was all laid out, produce, is correlated with the fonsumption of power, in the more than 1,2DO years ago, from the time of Charlemagne, way the form of which power e resses itself, per production the development of Europe, along its natural course, defined and life. And thus, we see, tha the relations we describe ­ then in terms partly of waterways, and canal systems linking the geographical relations, wat r, power, transportation, and these waterways,which gave an impetus to this sort of direc­ the location of urban centers, 1 d so forth - reflecta deeper tion. Naturally, the Ostmark, Vienna, became a center: a principle, the principle of ma�'s relationship to nature, a center of development, on the Danube. Similarly, Prague, relationship which is determin�d by the essential distinction eventually, became a center. Similarly, Brandenburg, and which sets man apart from, a d above, all the beasts: the Berlin, as part of that mark, became a center. And so, over powers of creative reason. t the course of centuries, geography, and the process of devel­ One must be informed in th� proceeding, in constructing opment, pivoted upon Paris, or Charlemagne's Paris, to be a proper plan of development,1 by reference to the method more precise, has determined the economic history of Eu­ which I've employed in my ow · work, such as, for example, rope, or the economic outlines, with which the economic I reference construction on the asis of the [1981] Lagos Plan history of Europe would flow. of Action, which I did some y� ars back, and other plans of So, what we have, in the Triangle today, is not some development, or as we have d e in terms of plans for the accidential phenomenon, or an arbitraryone; but a veryna tu­ development of Argentina, or t e Ibero-American Common ral one. Market as a whole: partial, but i dicative of the method to be Similarly, we find thatwhen we definewhat we've called used, or what I've done, in der ning the development plan the spiral arms, radiating from the Triangle, we find that for the Pacific-Indian Ocean B*in, as a whole. these spiral arms are definedin a natural and historical way. This method, is a method I which I have learned from And what we are doing, is taking advantage of that fact Leibniz. And it's rather import nt to emphasize, as a matter to recognize, as I said before, that if we were dealing with of practical consideration, tha I learned this method first the settling of Mars, the geography of Mars, that the kind of between the ages of 14 and 16, in choosing Leibniz over all considerations which I've just indicated above, would tell us other leading philosophers of rance, Germany, and Eng­ where to plan the future citiesof Mars, even before the first land, of the period of the sev teenth and eighteenth cen­ person had landed on that planet. turies. This relationship to Leibni was deepened from the age The essential principle of 16 on, by my undertaking t defend Leibniz against the Third, the essential principle underlying this is the rela­ principles of the anti-Leibnizia , Immanuel Kant. My work tionship of man to nature. Man is unlike any other creature, in economic geography, and ph sical economy, began essen­ in that man's relationship to nature is definedby the potential tially at the age of 25 on, in rec nizing the essential fallacy, for creative reason in man. the bestialization of man, inher nt in Prof. Norbert Wiener's ' By creative reason we mean specifically, the powers of notion of information theory. at the attempt to apply that the discovery, which are associated with the discovery of notion of information theory t man, as somehow corres­ valid, new scientific principles -valid, new principles of ponding to the nature of huma intelligence, or intelligent natural science. We also mean principles of discovery, cre­ behavior, was bestiality, and I ecognized that as being co­ ativity, as they're associated with the classical forms of art. herent with the fallacyof Kant, in Kant's attack on Leibniz. But it's sufficient, for our purposes here, to identify, essen­ And thus, I have mastered t e Leibnizian-Socratic meth­ tially, the notion of scientificand technological progress. od, in these ways, mastered it fr m a veryearly age in adoles­ Man's history - essentially, his successful history of sur­ cence, the age of the seconda years, where the formative vival - is determined by the exercise of this power of scien­ development of the intellect occ rs, rather than in university, tificcreative reason: the abilityof man to generate, transmit, it occurs in the so-called seco ary school-age years. And and assimilate efficiently, advances, or lessening of imper­ therefore, I had mastered this m thod at the time most propi­ fection, in man's knowledge of the principles of nature. tious for any person who wishes to master it; and thus, I have The result of this is an increase in population density, or a certain excellence, a rather un que excellence, by virtue of potential population density, which means that in terms of others neglecting to do the sam thing. And thus, one must production of the material means of survival and develop­ say, that in undertaking this k nd of approach which I've ment of man's condition, that is, we might call it an improv­ indicated above, one must refer nce my work. ing standard of living, that the productive power of the aver­ I would especially recomm nd study of the elementary age individual has increased, in physical terms, in terms of considerations of my method, hich is available now in a technology and physical production. So, we have an in­ short book, In Defense of Com on Sense, 1989, and refer­ crease, per capita, in man's power over nature. At the same ence also to a series of studie complementing that, ·and time, this per capita power is reflected in man's power per treating some more advanced p blems relevant to econom­ hectare, per square kilometer, over nature. The power to ics, among other things, called roject A. 28 Feature �IR Septem ber 17, 1993 I I The Oasis Plan: Man-Illade rivets and growth corridors spanthe des by Marcia Merry drts

The Oasis Plan outlined by Lyndon LaRouche refers to a nuclear reactor designs (see box);. Complete desalination program encompassing already-proposed water manage­ units, including nuclear power sources, can be built in assem­ ment, transportation, and other projects, combined with the bly-line fashion on floatingplatforms for rapid transport and large-scale use of nuclear power to desalinate water,to estab­ installation. The technology and most of the development lish a system of reservoirs and man-made freshwatercanals work for such mass-produced units, is already complete. The and rivers throughout the Middle East-North Africaregion. German firm Siemens and the Swedish-Swiss combine Asea Bythis means, along with agricultural and industrial facili­ Brown Boveri have project designs for these units. The HTR ties, and the related provision of social infrastructure- hous­ modules possess characteristics of stabilityand inherent safe­ ing, schools, health care, towns, cultural centers, etc. - the ty which make them ideally suited for large-scale use foundation is provided for economic development and dura­ throughout the region. ble peace. This application of nuclear power illustrates what can be We present here a summary picture of the priority proj­ done more generally, with the quality of productive power ects for the region, and also a summaryaccount of the means which nuclear technologyembod ies.Apart from the unlimit­ to provide the critical inputs for realizing these projects, from ed potential of desalination, it is eminently possible to trans­ the output potential of the "Productive Triangle" region of fer huge quantities of fresh water from areas with a surplus central Europe. of such water - above all, the tropical rain regions of Central Africa - into the Sahel, North Afrita, and even into the Mid­ Power to make water dle East. Projects to accomplish ;this, through systems of First, consider what we can do with nuclear energy. Take canals, reservoirs, and pumping stjations, have long been on a hypothetical case: Imagine an agro-industrialcolony in the the drawing boards. middle of a desert, in a location not conveniently reachable from a variety of freshwater management projects now on The Great Projects the drawing boards, but adjacent to salt water fromthe sea. Figure1 shows regions encircled where, with the neces­ We take half a dozen high-temperature nuclear reactor sary energyinputs and some "geographic engineering," wa­ (HTR)modules, of the typewhich today can be produced on ter can be channeled from surplus to deficitareas . Other types assembly lines. We put together these modules into a power of projects are also indicated. plant producing 1-2 gigawatts of electric generating power Engineering plans exist for th� following projects: and an additional 1-2 gigawatts of usable heat output. We • Transferring water from the Zaire (Congo) basin, out apply a portion of that electric and thermal output to desali­ of the Ubangi River system, int(j) the Lake Chad basin to nating seawater, using a combination of existingprocesses, stabilize the lake and provide water resour�s for Sahel devel­ at the rate of 70-100 cubic meters per second. This provides opment. ample freshwater for the domestic, irrigation, and industrial • Capturing more of the White and Blue Nile rivers to needs of a self-sustaining agro-industrial colony of 1 million improve the headlands and downriver regions. people - in the middle of a desert! The rest of the HTR power • Developing the groundwa_er resources from under­ we use for pumping between the sea and the location of our neath the Sahara, fromNorth Africaacross to northern Soma­ colony (at an elevation of, let us say, 400 meters). A few lia, and under the Arabian Desert� In particular, the Qattara more nuclear units cover the electricity and process-heat re­ Depression is shown in northern, Egypt, where a huge dry quirements of the colony itself. hole is a made-to-order lake bed forseawater to be transferred Twodozen such HTR desalination centers produce a flow in via a 35-mile canal from the M�diterranean. of fresh water equivalent to that of the Nile and Euphrates In Libya, 1992 saw the openiQg of the "Great Man-Made . combined - a man-made river system! River" project, in which water is pumped up from under In practice, the size of individual desalination complexes the Sahara and carried by a huge underground pipeline to can varyover a wide range, using recently perfected modular population centers on the Mediterranean coast which are oth-

EIR September 17, 1993 Feature 29 FIGURE 1 Major water development projects

erwise running out of water. ment corridors throughout the Figure 2 shows sche- • Improving the flow of the run-offoriginating in the matically the possible routes of canals. Anatolian highlands in Turkey, down through the Euphrates The Mediterranean-Dead S proposals have been dis- and Tigris River basins. The map indicates this by the two­ cussed for decades. The route Israel, south of Beer- pronged "Peace Pipeline" proposal of Turkey, which, even sheba, was proposed by Dr. Yaacobi. According to though the proposal has been used as a geopolitical ploy, another proposal by Prof. Ben Shahar, former presi- symbolizes what could be done in terms of making run­ dent of Tel Aviv University, the ·ect was more an energy off available in other ways - augmented flow, aqueducts, program, not a water source - recent technological tunnels, etc. - to enhance the region. On the lower Tigris advances in desalination have this view. and Euphrates, Iraq has built a "Third River" - a large drain­ Most recently, the Dead Sea proposal has been age canal to carry away the saline irrigation run-off to the advanced by Dr. Munther , a former director of the Persian Gulf. Jordan Valley Authority and of the Jordan delegation • The centerpiece projects of the entire region are pro­ for negotiations over water in recent Multilateral Peace posed canals that would connect the Dead Sea either to the Talks. He has stressed the role of bringing in seawater to Mediterranean, or to the Red Sea, or to both, serving as raise the level of the Dead Sea, has fallen dramatically. seawater channels, along which nuclear-powered desalina­ A higher Dead Sea water will act beneficially to tion units can provide the water resource base for develop- stabilize the aquifers on both of it. Haddadin said in

30 Feature September 17, 1993 rosion. The inability of helium to ab sorb neutrons means it cannot become radioactive, so pr�blems with embrittle­ Energyand water for ment and possible fatigue failure df metal parts are also eliminated. Moreove,r, since heli�m remains as a gas theMideast: theMHTGR throughout the reactor cycle, ther� is no chance that the coolant will boil away; this also al�ows for visual televi­ High-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR) are an ad­ sion inspection of the inside of the teactor while in opera­ vanced form of nuclear fissionreactor that originated as a tion - something not possible duri g the steam phases of *' spinoffof NASA's search for a nuclear propulsion system a water-cooled reactor. for manned missions to Mars in the 1960s, and prototype reactors have been operating for years at Fort St. Vrain, MHTGRs fo r desalination , Colorado, and in the Federal Republic of Germany. A study by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Designs are now forthcoming for modular reactors Metropolitan Water District of Southern California found (MHTGRs)from General Atomics of California,and Sie­ that one single desalination plant, consisting of four mens/Asea Brown Boveri of Germany. General Atomics 350 MW MHTGRs, could produce 106 million gallons proposes a standardized design for an HTGR module, able of water per day, or 38.6 billion . gallons per year, and to produce 350 megawatts of thermal energy, which can provide at the same time, 466 M\V;of electric power each be converted to about 140 MW of electricity. Asea Brown as well. There are also designs fdr smaller units, easily Boveri proposes small modules that can be " floated" into mass-produced. place on barges, and hitched with desalination facilities to A unique advantage of high-temperature gas-cooled cheaply produce freshwater. reactors is that their energycan be used as process heat or The MHTGR uses helium gas as a coolant, instead of steam. Seventy percent of industIj'senergy needs are of water. Since helium gas is inert, and has verylow neutron this type. With the advantage of MHTGRs' flexibility in absorption characteristics, the MHTGR is top of the line siting, they can be located strate$ically where they can in design safety. Pipes, valves, and other metal reactor provide water, electricity, and process heat for industry parts will not react with helium, virtually eliminating cor- all at the same time.

June 1992, "The days to come and the months to come would we can construct "nuplexes" - complexes of nuclear power probably witness a dialogue over a project like this [Dead and large desalination units, generating fresh water for a Sea Canal] in the multilateral talks, and see how best that system of smaller and larger fre$hwater canals ("artificial level of the Dead Sea be controlled." rivers"). Large-scale use of desalination is complemented by Through these and related projects, significant improve­ channeling and pumping of fresh water from natural sources. ments in the water supply of the Middle East and North Instead of simply spreading the fresh water around evenly African nations could be realized within a few years, with in an irrigation system, we can create with these rivers a dramatic improvements accruing by the tum of the century. network of interconnected "green bands" of development. As opposed to merely isolated "g.-een islands," these green Man-made rivers and lakes bands become at the same time transportation axes for the It is crucial that the water flows thus generated not be movement of goods and persons tiyship , rail, and road, and dispersed in an arbitrary manner, but be organized and con­ the locations for new towns, cities; and industrial complexes. centrated in what could best be described as a "network of The locations and courses of the new rivers and "green man-made rivers and lakes." Water fromthe Mediterranean, bands" must be determined on the basis of geographical, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and Arabian Sea can be channeled geological, and infrastructural donsiderations, bearing in via canals into a series of artificial reservoirs. mind the future growth of popUlation and transport as well as Where necessary, water must first be raised through the regime of water flows which -Will arise through increase pumping to points from which the water can then flow to in natural rainfall. reservoirs via canals. The power for this can be supplied by The reservoirs of salt water ¢hanneled inland from the nuclear reactors. Where the creation of canals and reservoir seas will serveseveral purposes. Ftirst,they supply the desali­ basins requires large earth-moving operations, nuclear exca­ nation plants and various industries along their shores. Sec­ vation can be employed with advantage. ond, they provide a means of trknsport, together with the Canals provide both the water flow to fill the reservoirs, canals. Third, the water from these lakes enhances the water and also a transport means. Along the canals and reservoirs cycle of the atmosphere; and thete are potential hydrostatic

EIR September 17, 1993 Feature 31 Inputs from the Europe�n 'Productive Triangle' FIGURE 2 The most essential precondition for the proposals out­ Proposals for a Dead Sea-Red Sea canal, and lined here, is the realization �f Lyndon LaRouche's infra­ a Dead Sea-Mediterranean canal structure development prograPt for the "Productive Trian­ gle" -the three comers of th� spherical triangle defined by the cities of Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. The fate of the Middle East is inseparably linked to igenerating a new "economic miracle" in central Europe vi� high-speed rail and magneti­ cally levitated rail systems an� a renaissance of nuclear ener­ gy. Figure 3 shows the core r¢gion of the Productive Trian­ gle, and radiating outward, sp.rals of development corridors along the centers of populatioQ and economic activity. Given the collapse of the q.S. economy, it is continental Europe, together with Japan, tNhich must provide the deci­ sive margin of technology fo� developing the Middle East. This includes the mass produ�tion of nuclear modules and desalination units over the neX/: 15-20 years. In this context, we must m�ssively upgrade the transport infrastructure between North t\frica, the Middle East, and the Productive Triangle in Eurqpe. This must include connec­ tions to the southern tip of SHain, a bridge to Sicily, high­ speed rail connections to Ist$bul, and connections to the Black Sea.

JORDAN Among the proposed elem�nts of this transport grid are: 1) Construction of a transport route across the Strait of Gibraltar. i 2) ____Proposed Extension of high-spe�d freight and passenger rail , �analltunnelroutes , lines fromcentral Europe into � closed loop around the Medi­ terranean: over the Gibraltar bpdge along the coast of North Mrica, over the Suez Canal to Jsrael-Jordan-Lebanon-Syria, EGYPT and via Turkey back to central lEurope. 3) Massive upgrading of rafl connections through Turkey into Iraq, Iran, and beyond. i 4) Infrastructural develop�ent of the Black Sea area, providing for improved rail al1d sea links to the industrial SAUDI ARABIA centers of Ukraine , via the "Danube arm" (Line C on the map) to Europe's Productive Triangle, and through the Caucasus. 5) Improvement of sea and �ipeline connections between Sicily and North Africa (Tuni$ia), with the eventual option of a tunnel. benefitsfor the groundwater. The ability to provide flowsof fresh water in the indicated War against the desert i fashion also gives us the power to modifythe climate of the Theprocess outlined here qan be usefully thought of as a region in a most beneficial way. Evaporation fromlakes and ''war against the desert," with �he goal of attaining eventual reservoirs, and above all transpiration from plants and the "final and complete victory." Fresh water is the immediate other effects deriving from large-scale, irrigated, intensive ammunition, and the "frontlineI soldiers" are the construction agriculture in desert areas, greatly enhance the natural pro­ workers and corps of engineersj who build the canals, towns, cesses for generation of rain. Provided that water manage­ industrial complexes,and railw�ys, and the farmers who work ment and agriculture expand in parallel with the increase in the irrigated land "conquered" ifrom the desert. "Behind the rainfall, this process· becomes self-accelerating. The lines" are the industrial workers �d engineers who provide the throughput of water among the atmosphere, sea, land, and "armaments"for the ''war'': steel� concrete, piping, desalination biomass grows to the point that the deserts finallydisappear, and power equipment, bulldoze� and tractors, and prefabricat­ and a mild, "Mediterranean" climate is established through­ ed housing. Each new piece of t¢rritory won from the "enemy" out the region. must be consolidated, colonizedj, and converted into a base for

32 Feature EIR September 17, 1993 FIGURE 3 Spiral arms extending from the European 'Productive Triangle'

further assaults on the "enemy." The measure of firepower is Social infrastructure the amount of useful energywhich can be applied per square Ranking equally with the water in the region is kilometer and per capita, in terms of intensities of agricultural, the need for provision of health care, education, industrial, and infrastructural activity. cultural and religious centers, and manner of social infra- Just as with real armaments, increasing the firepower is structure. Despite strife and "''''U'lIVJ,lI''' hardship, several local a question of the level of technology. In the face of such a examples of new town show the way. formidable enemy as the deserts of North Africa and the For example, in the east Egypt in the 1980s, agri- Middle East, we would be foolish not to employ the most culture complexes were created the ground up, located modern arms available - "nuclear weapons," such as the at chosen sites convenient to experimental agriculture high-temperature reactor, combined with advanced desalina­ development zones. Power supplied for pumping tion technologies and so forth. groundwater. Where for the 5,000 years only desert The ability to use these weapons of modern technology brush grew, water was supplied, soils "created" by a depends on the education, training, and moral qualities of scientificsequence of cropping, in humus formation the soldiers and those who must supply and maintain such and good yields. weapons. To these are added the scientists and engineers who Wholly new towns were desi�ed and built for the new must constantly develop and perfect new weapons in the residents, accounting for dwellings, schools, shops, reli­ course of the war. Ultimately, it is the productive power of gious and cultural centers, and with special attention provid­ society, the expansion of its economic base, which deter­ ed to the architectural features. No the design and construc­ mines whether or not the protracted war against the deserts tion of new towns becomes the foremost Great Project of the will end in victory. accords.

EIR September 17, 1993 Feature 33 FIGURE 4 Eurasian rail system would link up with the Mideast

The great trans-Arabian railway ernpart of what was then the qtoman Empire. The volume Any effort to stabilize the Middle East by economic de� of grain transports along the Eskjisehir-Konya route increased velopment must begin with the construction of a trans-Arabi­ from 12,200 tons in 1895 to lQ6,700 tons in 1897; and the an railway grid that links the entire region to the transport volume of minerals grew frortI only 15 tons in 1896, to infrastructure and industrial power of central Europe. Figure 26,072 tons as early as 1900. ;The availability of the new 4 shows selected major links of the proposed Eurasian rail route led to a visible rise in prodpction and density of popula­ grid interlinking the Productive Triangle region with the Mid­ tion along the railroad within o�ly a few years. east and North Africa. The successful developme�t of the Anatolian mineral The basic concept needed for the Middle East rail grid is deposits generated the concept 9f a similar rail link from the still the same as that which was worked out 100 years ago mineral-rich areas on the Deaq Sea and south of it, to the and proposed by Germany under Otto von Bismarck. The port of Aqaba. This intention o. the government in Istanbul, projected rail grid ultimately connected Berlin with Baghdad, however, met as much oppositi�n from British Empire inter­ and led to the planning of the great railway projects of the ests, which feared competitionj to their monopoly on Suez central routes Istanbul-Baghdad, Damascus-Mecca, and Canal transit revenues, as did �nother plan to continue the Caspian Sea-Persian Gulf. Anatolian route to Baghdad via f\,danaand Mosul. Construc­ The first segment of the Berlin-Baghdad connection ­ tion on the Konya-Baghdad ro¥te was interrupted in 1904, the Anatolian route from Istanbul to Konya which was com­ and on the Amman-Aqaba roqte in 1906, after threats of pleted in the record time of only six years between 1888 military action by the British Err-pire. and 1894 - proved the effectiveness of the new rail link in A compromise route from Qamascus to Medina through promoting industrial production and commerce in the west- Amman, the so-called Hedjaz "Pilgrimage Railroad, was un-

34 Feature September 17, 1993 :EIRi willingly accepted by the British on condition that the Aqaba and urban development in the seco*d half of the 1970s and port project and the continuation of the rail line from Medina the entire decade of the 1980s. Thi · development era never to Mecca and the Red Sea port of Jiddah be stopped. This occurred. t. one-track route had great potential for development into a rail link for mass transport of commodities on the western Let's complete the projects! I rim of the Arabian Peninsula. The railway'S economic poten­ Now these projects must be pur�ued. An immediate goal tial - and of course its military implications - caused the is to complete the rail lines along th� main routes of Istanbul­ British in 1916 to have their agent, T.E. Lawrence "of Ara­ Baghdad-Basra -Kuwait, Aleppo-�amascus-Amman-Jidd­ bia," destroy the tracks ofthe Hedjaz route and thereby block ah-Mecca, Alexandria-Qattara, an1 Heluan-Bahariyah-Qat- transport along the entire route over a length of 844 kilome­ tara, is more urgent than ever. ! ters from Mecca northwards. Various efforts to restore the Since the conceptual work done �y the Arab governments route have not succeeded to this day. in the 1970s, additional useful projeFts have been envisaged. In the twentieth century, there were repeated initiatives Resuming work on the Syrian-Jord�nian segment of the old for rail projects, and repeated obstructions. Each mile was Hedjaz railroad, in connection with � Jordan Valley develop­ an achievement. The construction of the first trans-Iranian ment project with extended operati�s at the ports of Tripoli, railroad, from Bandar Shah (currently Bandar-e Torkeman) Haifa, and Aqaba and with the m�dernization of rail links on the Caspian Sea to Bandar Shahpur (Bandar-e Khomeyni) between these ports, would creat� a joint region of rapid on the Persian Gulf, was begun in 1927 under the firstShah economic growth that could defin� mutual, sound interests Reza by German and American engineers - over British pro­ in peace between Israel and its Ara� neighbors. tests - and completed in 1938. Furthermore, direct cooperatioq between the Suez Canal However, the outbreak of World War II again halted the and the port of Aqaba could sen,1e the development of a big railway projects. Construction on some of the routes was riparian urban culture along the w�stern rim of the Arabian not seriously considered for lack of funds before the late Peninsula, from Aqaba to Jiddah �nd Aden, and launch a 1960s, and only gained new momentum after the 1973 oil mirror development on the western tim of the Red Sea, along crisis which gave various Arabgovernments increased reve­ the eastern African coast from Sue� to Dj ibouti. nues from oil sales. The natural extension westward�fEgypt's Qattara devel­ opment project would be the const ction of a trans-Maghreb Railway designs in the 1970s rail route from Alexandria to Or n to Tangier, along the New plans for big trans-Arabian railroad projects were Mediterranean coast of northern Af� ica, and the construction worked out by the governments of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, of another rail link from the Nile tq the Lake Chad develop­ Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, and were presented in the mid-1970s ment project in northern Central AJ1rica. in the Arab League's Guidelines for Railroad Projects in the The creation of a rail ferry lin� from southern Italy and Middle East. This included: Sicily to the Libyan port of Tripolt plus the drilling of two • The completion of the Baghdad-Basra-Kuwait rail link rail tunnels below the Strait of Qibraltar in the west and plus another 1,550 miles of inner-Iraqi routes at the cost of beneath the Dardanelles in the east Kmodeled on the Channel approximately $20 billion. Tunnel project under construction �etween France and Brit­ • The Damascus-Horns-Palmyra link in Syria at the cost ain), would establish three centraf connections of modem of $2-3 billion, the restoration and change from small gauge transport infrastructure among Afrlca, the Middle East, and (1,050 mm) to the European standard gauge (1,435 mm) on the envisaged Productive Triangle in central Europe. the entire old Hedjaz route, plus the branch westward to Generally speaking, the main �rans-Arabian rail routes Aqaba in Jordan and Saudi Arabia at the cost of $5-7 billion. should be laid out in a two-trackm ctIe, at least, and eventual­ • A trans-Saudi rail route fromDammam on the Persian ly even in three or four tracks, tq provide a basic, future­ Gulf to Mecca-Jiddah on the Red Sea at a cost of $10-12 oriented rail grid that could last fori the next 100 years. Elec­ billion was planned, and another, parallel trans-Saudi route, trification and broadening of m�ny old tracks from the proceeding north of the firstone from Riyadh to Medina via 1,000 mm gauge to the Europ¢an standard gauge of Buraydah, were projected as well, at $8-10 billion. 1,435 mm width is necessary to lin� the entire rail infrastruc­ • In Egypt, two rail links leading to the planned Qattara ture of the North African and Mid�le Eastern regions to the Depression reservoir project, one from Alexandria south­ modem rail grid of Europe. I ward, the other westward from Heluan through the oasis of If done properly, concentrated I investments in the trans­ Bahariyah with its rich neighboring minerals and iron ore port infrastructure, with emphasis ion modernized and high­ reserves,were worked out, also at projected combined costs speed railroads, could lay the groupdwork for a great region of several billion dollars. of economic cooperation among IEurope, Africa, and the The basic idea behind these trans-Arabian projects was Middle East that would, aftera lo*g period of war and con­ to utilize the increased revenues from crude oil sales to the flict, manipulation, and imperial*, ventures, finally make industrial nations of the West, for industrial, agricultural, the Mediterranean a lake of peace �nd development.

EIR September 17, 1993 Feature 35 �TIillInternational

War in Caucasus risks becomingint ernationalized

by Konstantin George

On Sept. 8, Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller arrived The irony of the threatenediTurkish intervention is that in Moscow for an urgent crisis summit with the Russian the object of its intended militaryassistance , namely Azer­ leadership on the Armenia-Azerbaijan war, which is on the baijan, has firmlydeclared its i ention to rejoin the Russian brink of becoming internationalized, drawing in Turkey, Empire. Three days before the iller visit, Azerbaijanruler Russia, and Iran. In the days before the Russian-Turkish Gaidar Aliyev arrived in Mosc� for talks with the Russian summit, both Turkey and Iran had threatened, separately, government. The first result w� an announcement by Rus­ military interventionto "help" Azerbaijan against "Armenian sian Prime Minister Viktor Ch�rnomyrdin that Azerbaijan aggression." The Russian government countered by sending intended to rejoin the CIS, an� this would appear on the separate warnings to Ankara and Teheran, not to militarily agenda of the Sept. 24 CIS sumfnit. The second result was a intervene.It is this three-way configurationwhich makes the grand announcement by the RU&jSian government that Russia crisis so explosive. would sponsor a special "Cauc4sus" summit on Sept. 20 in While the prospects are very good for a Russian-Turkish Moscow, involving the heads �f state of Russia, Georgia, understanding coming off the Ciller-Yeltsin summit, any Azerbaijan, and Armenia. All 'jnon-Soviet" outsiders, Tur­ agreements defusing the conflictcould become unglued over­ key included, were excluded. i night by Iranian actions precipitating a Turkish intervention. I That in turncould trigger a Russian response to protect Arme­ Turkey threatens intervelntion nia, which is a member of the Russian-led CIS Defense Pact. The immediate danger of thelwarbecoming international­ The escalation danger could thus transform overnight the ized can be traced to a series of Turkish moves that culmi­ Armenia-Azerbaijan "regional" war into a major East-West nated in threats of a Turkish Il1ilitary intervention against strategic confrontation, which would begin by pitting Russia Armenia issued Sept. 4 by Ciller and the Turkish military against a NATO member, Turkey. leadership. The key passages ofithese threats reveal the truth concerning Turkish policy obj�ctives in the Caucasus, as Russia controls the Caucasus opposed to the myth widely sppported by western media Whatever happens, one fact will not change, namely that coverage of a "selfless"Turke y,lintent only on "rescuing" its Russia all but controls the Caucasus and will cement its con­ Azerbaijan "brother" from furtl¢r. defeats at the hands of the trol in the near future. It controls Georgia and Azerbaijan Armenians. through coups which brought to power two "former" KGB Ciller issued her threat via Ian interview in the leading generals, respectively, Eduard Shevardnadze and Gaidar daily, Hurriyet, where she t�undered that "if even one Aliyev. The Azerbaijani-Turkish blockade of Armenia has thumb's breadth of Nakhichev�n's territory is violated by forced that republic to become a de facto Russian colony, a the Armenian aggressors, I wil� summon the parliament to status most recently reflectedin the Sept. 7 formation of the declare a state of war" between :Turkey and Armenia. Ciller "ruble zone," of which Armenia is part. Under the terms invoked the 1921 Russo-Turkish Treaty which made (Soviet) of the ruble zone agreement, all members surrender to the Russia and Turkey co-guarantors of Nakhichevan's status. Russian Central Bank control over economic, financial, and Nakhichevan is the exclave o� Azerbaijan sharing a long monetary policy. border with Iran, but also a 20-kilometer common border

36 International IEIR September 17, 1993 with Turkey. It is separated fromthe Azerbaijan "mainland" seized nearly all of southwest �erbaijan, driving a flood by a thin strip of Armenian territory running down to the of 200,000 Azeri refugees eastward along the Araks River, Iranian border. It was detached from Armenia under the which forms the border betweenI �an and Azerbaijan. Ethni­ terms of the 1921 Lenin-Ataturk Russo�Turkish treaty and cally, the Araks River divides Azetbaij an from Iranian Azer­ given to Azerbaijan. It is also the place of refuge taken by baijan where 10 million Azeris li· e, 3 million more than in ' the ex-President of Azerbaijan and Turkish asset, Abulfez the whole of Azerbaijan. This h s made Teheran nervous Elcibey, deposed in June by a Russian coup that brought to to the extreme. The last thing Irt n wants are hundreds of power "former" KGB general and ruler of Azerbaijanin the thousands of Azeris descending i · 0 Iranian Azerbaijan. Ar­ Soviet period, Gaidar Aliyev. That coup, much more than menia, sensitive to Teheran's con ms, has deliberately halt­ the so-called "Armenian aggression," stung Turkish leaders, ed its forces short of the Iran-Azeri aijan border, allowing an who had thought that Azerbaijan was "theirs." "escape corridor" in Azerbaijan territoryfor the refugees. That being said, we return to Ciller's threat. In reality, In part because of the refuge¢s, but also on account of there is and never has been an Armenian military threat to the Turkish threat, Iran at the be,inning of September also Nakhichevan. The Armenian leadership knows very well that conducted a large militarybuildu p along the border. As the Nakhichevan is Turkey's "Red Line" in the Caucasus, and Turkish threats were being issued small contingents of Irani­ 'i has studiously avoided giving even the appearance of taking an troops crossed into Azerbaijap and occupied two dams any action against the exclave. It is clear that Turkey is along the Araks River, an action t�at Teheran had confirmed. looking for a pretext, no matter how flimsy,to occupy Nakhi­ On Sept. 8, as Cillerwas arriving ip Moscow, Iran announced chevan, as the starting point for restoring its shattered pres­ that it was sending "10,000 helpers" into Azerbaijan to con­ ence in the Caucasus. struct tent cities to house 100,Oqowar refugees during the The companion threat issued by the Turkish military lead­ coming winter. i ership illustrated that a seizure of Nakhichevan was not the With Ciller's arrival in Moscqw, the crisis had reached a end goal, but a springboard for further militaryactio ns. Turk­ critical inflectionpoint. It could efther explode into a war, or ish General Staff spokesman Colonel Silahcioglu declared see a diktat imposed on Armeni� and Azerbaijan by Russia that the Armed Forces are ready, if so ordered, "to secure and Turkey, establishing a new �ivision of influence in the Armenia's withdrawal from the territory of our friend and Caucasus, a sort of Caucasus "N9W Yalta ." Under this, Rus­ brother Azerbaijan." To achieve this, the Turkish Army must sia would accommodate minim�l Turkish, or western de­ secure an overland connection from Turkey to the areas of mands, though the agreement w�ld reflectRuss ia's overall southwest Azerbaijan held by Armenian forces. This can dominance in the area. I only be done by crossing and seizing Armenian territory. In On the Turkish side, Ciller lvill propose an agreement military terms, the finalTurkish goal is to advanceeastwards that would secure without a mili*ry intervention the goal of from Nakhichevan to grab the strategically crucial strip of the threatened intervention, namfly, a continuous overland Armenian territory along the Iranian border separating link between Turkey and Azer ij an. This would involve a Nakhichevan from Azerbaijan. "settlement" of the Armenia- rbaijan war based on ex­ These threats did not come out of the blue. They were change of territories and popula� ·ons. Concretely, Azerbai­ preceded in the first days of September by a large Turkish jan would surrender Karabakh �nd the territory between it troop buildup on the border with N akhichevan, and along the and Armenia, to Armenia. �enia would pay a terrible long Turkish-Armenian border. They were also preceded price for this: It would surrend�r ro Azerbaijan the strip of its by months of dangerous and ludicrous anti-Armenian war territory along the Iranian bordefJ. propaganda in the press and media, which reached a peak of From an imperial standpoint� such an agreement would hysteria in the firstdays of September. A prime example on also favor Russia, which, since Ithe June coup that brought both counts, 'with added emphasis on the ludicrous, was the Aliyev to power, has come closf to completing its de facto Sept. 2 front page of Turkey's leading "moderate" daily, reconquest of the Caucasus. W�h the loss of its only non­

Milliyet, with a huge multi-colored map of the crisis region, Russian controlled overland linkI�o the outside world, Arme- showing red-colored tanks poised in Armenia, with their gun nia would move from near-to al 0 total dependencyon Rus- barrels pointing over the border into Turkey. Were one to sia. With the acquisition of enian territory to "compen­ take the Turkish media seriously, then "mighty" Armenia sate" for the "loss" of Karabs h, Moscow agent Aliyev was about to descend on Turkey. A similar wave of outra­ would be become an "Azeri h4ro" in time for the Oct. 3 geous nonsense about the alleged "threat" posed to Turkey's elections for President and parli· ment in Azerbaijan, where existence bylittle Cyprus(population 500,000) preceded the he could duly "legalize" his dict torship. 1974 Turkish invasion of that island republic. This outcome is likely, but t y no means assured. There The crisis is compounded by the parallel threat of an are too many players, and one p ovocative move by any one Iranian military move into Azerbaijan, something which Tur­ of them could easily explode ant agreements or understand- key cannot tolerate. The summer Armenian offensiveshave ings reached. !

EIR September 17, 1993 International 37 Mexicanolig archy panics as growers' rebellion spreads by Hugo Lopez Ochoa

Nearly 700 agricultural producers from 12 Mexican states contaminate the entire Mexican �ountryside and spread un­ held a National Assembly on Sept. 4, to put together a single controllably�' to other sectors. This, he warned, could influ­ unified program to save the farm sector from devastation ence the 1994 presidential succ�ssion and even lead to the caused by a decade of "liberal" free-market policies. The creation of a "Debtors League.'1. This, he insisted, "cannot National Assembly was the culmination of a series of region­ be permitted." al mobilizations headed up by the Permanent Forum of Rural Mercado accused the Mexic4n Labor Party, the Schiller Producers (FPPR) of Sonora and by the Jalisco growers' Institute, and U.S. politician Lyndon H. LaRouche of fi­ movement known as EI Barzon, and was held in Guadalajara, nancing the FPPR, with the obvio�s intent of giving a partisan capital city of Jalisco state, whose main plaza has been occu­ taint to a movement which has �on massive support in part pied by 200 tractors since Aug. 25. because of its deliberately non-p�rtisan nature. Attending the national meeting were independent pro­ The demands of the FPPR anq of EI Barzon are so popular ducers from the states of Chihuahua, Guanajuato, Morelos, that Mercado -known as a mouthpiece for central bank di­ Sonora, Tamaulipas, Baja California, Sinaloa, Colima, Nay­ rector Miguel Mancera - is forc�d to demand that an "eco­ arit, Aguascalientes, and Zacatecas. They gave a standing nomic-financialpackage" be off�red to the producers which ovation to the proposal presented by FPPR coordinators goes beyond a mere restructuring!of debt arrears (as the gov­ Jaime Miranda Pelaez and Alberto Vizcarra, calling for a ernment has offered) and which gives the agricultural sector moratorium on the country's farm debt; a rejection of that viability. However, Mercado n�ver clarifies just how that part of the debt - an estimated 80% of the total - which is "viability" is to be achieved w�thout changing the entire considered illegitimate because of factors out of the hands of structure of the government's fre�-market economic policy, the producers, such as high interest rates; and that the country a conclusion which the FPPR ha� already reached. return to the dirigist economic policy of a National Bank, which would issue low-interest bonds to tum the debt into Will EI Barzon learn its lesson? fresh credit for production. In addition to the Sonora pioposal to the Guadalajara Alberto Vizcarra called on the country's small and medi­ meeting, the assembled produce�s heard a proposal from EI um-sized industrialists to join the farmers' struggle to change Barzon leader Maximiano BarboSaLla mas, the head of the national economic policy. rural producers from Autlan, a city along the Jalisco coast. The farmers' revolt has been the leading issue in the His proposal urges forgiveness of the interest portion of the national press, with broad coverage given especially to the farm debt - both arrears and current - as well as a restructur­ FPPR proposal. There has also been coverage in Venezuela. ing of only that portion of the principal originally lent by And yet, with the exception of EIR magazine and the weekly the banks, at the same time that the government and the New Federalist, the U.S. media have refused to devote a commercial banks must offera j<1lint strategy fora financial word of coverage to developments which could well redefine reorganization of the agricultural sector. The Barbosa Llamas Mexican policy in the period to come. group thinks that it is still possible to negotiate the demands of the farm sector without challeqging the free-market foun­ Bankers fe ar a Debtors League dation of the policies which are d¢stroying them. Panic has already broken out among the ranks of the Because oflast -minute maneuvers by the Barbosa Llamas Mexican oligarchy, as reflectedby the director of the newspa­ group, the Guadalajara assemblyldid not formally adopt the per El Economista, Luis E. Mercado, a rabid spokesman Sonora proposal. However, they! decided to maintain their for the free-market doctrine in Mexico. Mercado's Sept. 5 "occupation" of Guadalajara's PI�za de Armas until National column issued a pathetic warningto the government that the Independence Day Sept. 15, and ito organize "tractorcades" Jalisco and Sonora farmers' "conflict"with the banks "could in the main plazas of state capitalS and other important cities

38 International EIR September 17, 1993 A motorcade of 200 tractors arrives in the central plaza in Guadalajara on Aug. 25, as fa rmers demand an end to fo reclosures and usury. where the national movement has forces, until the wave of the system of payments." bank foreclosures of indebted agricultural properties is Roberto Hernandez, the new president of the Mexican halted. Banking Association as well as ptesident of the country's Barbosa and his group may soon learnhow far they can largest bank Banamex, called on bankers and debtors to get with negotiations limited to the farm sector. On Sept. 5, maintain "an individualized instit tional relationship, and he and four other J alisco growers travelled to Puerto Vallarta, not a collective one that could lead to popular movements." where President Carlos Salinas de Gortari was busy propitiat­ He further called for changes in th law to facilitate foreclo­ ing the top bankers of the country gathered at the First Bank­ sure proceedings. ers' Convention. The acting governor of Jalisco, Carlos Rivera Aceves, Speakers at the convention included former U.S. Federal who has portrayed himself until noJ as a friend of the Guada­

Reservechairman Paul Volcker and David Mulford, George lajara farmers, told the bankers t�atI only a fraction of the Bush's former deputy treasury secretary who is now presi­ farmers of the state were involved �n the protest, and that all dent of Credit Suisse First Boston Bank. Salinas did not grant negotiation with the protesters was now ended. "The solution the farmers even five minutesof his time. When he came out is to negotiate; other attitudes caJ bring conflicts with the of the meeting, Barbosa Lima told the press that the President law," he threatened. j promised only case-by-case negotiations with the banks ­ As one of the papers reported, insideI the convention hall "that is, the same old story." Barbosa reported that, there­ were applause and optimistic speeches; but outside was reali- i fore, the mobilization will escalate, including bringing trac­ ty, the farmers' delegation, and p otests for better housing tors to Mexico City, blocking imports at national ports, or and salaries. shutting down federal highways. Inside the bankers' meeting, the government took a very The FPPR continues to gro� hard line: Volcker told the assembled bankers and govern­ Notwithstanding the lies, the FPPR proposal to spread ment officials that Mexicans must continue to be patient, the strike to other sectors is now odt in the national press. because "the conditions are not there for Mexico to achieve On Sept. 5, La fo mada reported on Alberto Vizcarra's more growth in the short term." Bank of Mexico President intervention at the Guadalajara assembly. Vizcarra, de­ Miguel Mancera promised that the austerity program will scribed as a "producer from Sono�a," told the farmers that continue without let-up. Undersecretary of the Treasury the revolt in Sonora and Guadalaj'f,a was nothing less than a Guillermo Ortiz lied that the farmers had reached "a truce" "national insurgencyby the agriculture sector" which seeks with the bankers, and that they had agreed to case-by-case to replace the "globalized" agric�lture policy with one of negotiations. No other concessions will be offered,he added; food self-sufficiency. "The poterltial here at this meeting the government cannot "legitimize illegal practices nor a should not be underestimated," he said. "Our objective policy of generalized forgiveness of the debt, which attacks should be to reorient policy towar ithe Mexican countryside.

EIR September 17, 1993 International 39 This is the moment; we should not lose it." The current policy ofthe Salinas governmentto wipe out Club af Rame national producers is no accident, but is "deliberate, and ordered by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund," he said. Farmers are not alone in this. The other productive sectors of the country,such as small and medium­ sized businessmen, suffer the same problems. I therefore invite them to join the movement. The arrears of the agricul­ tural sector are only one-fifth of the overdue debts which businessmen owe the banks, he added. Twenty-fiveyears On Sept. 6 both Exceelsior and La Jornada carried arti­ cles dedicated exclusively to the Sonora Forum's proposals ofmalthusi�fr aud on the debt: that the Bank of Mexico must issue a "rural I I bond," redeemable in 25 years and with interest rates of 2- by MarkBurdman 3%. This is the way to convert farm debt into new credits to i revive the sector, the Sonora group argues. The group also I proposes, these papers reported, that such a measure be com­ Among 25th anniversary events \being commemorated this bined with the creation of an interdisciplinary commission year is one that is more cause for mourning than joy. In between the federal government and the farmers, to deter­ 1968, the Club of Rome, publish�r of the fraudulent Limits to mine which part of the debt is legitimate and which illegiti­ Growth report that launched the �odern-dayneo-malthusian mate, because of fraudor speculative policies. movement, was created. Now, according to an announce­ Vizcarra's insistence that change in national policywas ment made by Qub of Rome PrefJident Ricardo Diez-Hoch­ necessary and urgent was the central theme of a press confer­ leitneron Sept. 4, the club's "jubiileeyear" will be celebrated ence given by the FPPR on Sept. 8 in Ciudad Obreg6n, at a conference in Hanover, Germany, from Dec. 1-3. Sonora, also widely covered by local newspapers, radio, and Diez-Hochleitner announced ,this during the concluding television. "The banks and the government are in a perverse session of this ye�r's "Dialogue Congress" of the annual lockstep," said Vizcarra, in response to a question as to how Alpbach European Forum, held lin the Tyrolean village of the FPPR views the authorities' attitude toward the growers' Alpbach in Austria. The theme pf the four-day event was demands. "The Emerging Europe - DialOg1ilewith the Iberian States." In a telephone interviewwith this correspondent, Vizcar­ Diez-Hochleitner plays a significantrole in Spanish politics, ra had the following to say about the Jalisco governor's appar­ having servedas state secretary for education, and currently ent reversal: "In the Guadalajara National Assembly, the holding the position of editor of the "trend-setting" Madrid growers fromeach state described in detail how their respec­ daily El Pais. His son, Ricardo Diez-Hochleitner Rodriguez, tive governors, one by one, had failed to win aid for their is director general for technical I coordination of European agricultural constituencies. It is clear that the government Community affairs in the SpanishiMinistry of State for Euro­ wants the governors to serve as intermediaries with the pro­ pean Communities. testers, to keep them separate, state by state and case by The barely disguised messag4 of Diez-Hochleitner Sr.'s case." Our job, he stressed, is to "break this divide-and­ presentation, was that the Club ofiRomemust be in a position conquer strategy." to steer policyin European govertlmentsand institutions dur­ Vizcarra also confirmed that the FPPR's telephones in ing the remaining part of this deoade, in order to impose an Ciudad Obreg6n were ringing off their hooks with calls from agenda of "sustainable development," "demographic stabili­ farmers fromaround the countrywho want to join the national zation" in the countries of the Sbuth, "education reform," movement. One of the largest tractorcades will be organized and the like. "It is with this in mind that the Club of Rome in Ciudad Obreg6n on Sept. 15. has convened, end of this year lin Hanover, a conference The mobilization by Mexico's growers has also spread called VI Sion Europe 2020, in ortier to debate the new role beyond national borders. The Venezuelan daily Reporte de and responsibilities of Europe it the world of tomorrow, la Economia published an article on Sept. 5, under the title including aspects of governance, Imigration, education, em­ "MexicO Also Gries," on the FPPR's debt moratorium pro­ ployment and values, as well a$ alternative strategies for posal, which was distributed in a press release issued by economic and social development." Venezuela's Agriculture Ministry. That same day, the daily The list of speakers invited ito the Hanover gathering 2001 not only reported the moratorium proposal, but also includes former Soviet President iMikhail Gorbachov, Rus­ emphasized that the Mexican agricultural crisis "has forced sia's chief International Monetary Fund "economic reform" producers to question the viability of a liberal economic mod­ spokesman Yegor Gaidar, Hungarian President Arpad el such as that in Venezuela." Goncz, former u.S. National security Adviser Zbigniew

40 International E.R September 17, 1993 Brzezinski, Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, Nobel migration calls for restructuring the economic relations with Prize winner Ilya Prigogine, LowerSaxony (Germany) Gov. labor-intensive developing countries and to contribute to Gerhard Schroeder, Club of Rome founder and honorary their demographic stabilization. This can be achieved mainly president Dr. Alexander King of Great Britain, and various through endogenous development thanks to massive foreign leading figuresfrom European think tanks, insurance compa­ investment, combined with training of human resources and nies, multinational corporations, politics, and finance.Panel women's education, to curb demographic explosion, and to themes are to include "The New Role of Europe in the stop the scenario of increased unemployed and underem­ World"; "Challenges for Mankind: Immigrant and Emigra­ ployed economic refugees settled in. more developed coun- tion Movements - The Significance of Work in Europe tries" (emphasis added). 2020 -Education and European Values;" and "A Just Well­ Elsewhere in his speech, Diez-Hochleitner stressed such Being for All in Europe 2020: New Forms of Ecological malthusian buzzwords as "sustainable development," and Activity- Strategies for Transformation of the Market and clothed calls for a slave labor-based economy in such pomp­ Financial System." ous verbiage as: "Traditional employment policies need also a profound reconsideration, starting with the by-now-utopian Demographic explosions and stabilizations principle of full employment, which has become a structural­ While some among these themes play sound quite inof­ ly impossible goal." fensive, the agenda is subsumed by the axiomatic neo-mal­ thusian approach of the Club of Rome. This world view Post-industrial New Age 'education' was clearly evidentin Diez-Hochleitner's Alpbach speech, Perhaps most insidious is the Club of Rome's targeting of "Europe's Future - Migration and Development." "At pres­ youth for its post-industrial goals. At the end of his Alpbach ent, the future of Europe is in the hands of a very small address, Diez-Hochleitner proclai1lled, "Since the future be­ percentage of the world's population," he said. "The Magh­ longs to the young, we should try hard to 're-enchant' the reb countries alone, for example, will reach in 20 more years European youth, for them to take over and to formulate a a similar population in numbers than the total population of vision for Europe to serve the wor14." (emphasis in original). the inhabitants of the present European Community." This sounds suspiciously like the verbiage used in out­ Nowhere was any evidence presented for this alarming come-based education (OBE) programs in the United States. proposition. In reality, the contention is absurd, a purely And, in fact, Diez-Hochleitner pr�ately confesses to be an concocted fantasy put forwardto justifycertain conclusions. insider in the international "education reform" movement. His figures exceed even the most exorbitant projections of He maintains regular contact with the architects of OBE in the various population control organizations for the Maghreb, United States, through such institutions as the International projections which themselves have been called into question Council of Education and U.S. Academy of Education, and by leading demographers in Europe. Furthermore, under an­ is writing a book on Learning fo r theFutur e, which is likely ticipated conditions of social, political, and economic unrest to be published by the Club of Rome in 1994. He is a senior in North Africa, exacerbated precisely by the policies of the figure in education policy in various other countries. Aside Club of Rome and its allies in the International Monetary fromhis position as former Spanish state secretaryfor educa­ Fund, the Maghreb could even achieve a disastrous state of tion, he was also former state secretary for education in Co­ zero population growth, or what Diez-Hochleitner euphemis­ lombia, a countrywhere he also maintains citizenship. tically labels "demographic stabilization," as we will see Diez-Hochleitner's activities ,complement the role of below. Club of Rome honorary president, Dr. Alexander King, who Diez-Hochleitner went on: "The task now, therefore, is was a key figurein the late 1960s, from his senior position in immensely bigger and more difficultcompared with the past, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develop­ not only in view of the ongoing demographic explosion in ment (OECD) in Paris, in designing an earlier "education less developed countries . . . but mainly due to the present reform" in Europe. In West Gef1l¥lny, these were known as wide-embracing political and economic crisis... . Migra­ the "Brandt reforms," named after Willy Brandt, who pushed tion of workers, fromone country to another, has been always them through after becoming chancellor in 1968. The Brandt a central characteristic of the global economic system, with reforms significantly undermined the traditional emphasis over 20 million people and uncounted family members. In in German schools on classical education. This created a addition, it [can] be a key element in regulating national generation of West German students largely divorced from population trends for many less developed countries. Howev­ the best parts of German and universal history, and lacking er, in present times of economic recession, migration tends the "immunological" basis to resist the onslaught of the New to become massive and chaotic, generating xenophobia and Age, neo-malthusian values that the Club of Rome pushes. political extremism, due to the excuse of competition for The significantrise of the green ecological movement in West space, resources and jobs if adequate livingconditions are not Germany, starting in the late 1960s,can be largely attributed ensured. . . . [A] long-term solution of the mixed blessing of to Alexander King's activities.

EIR September 17, 1993 International 41 ExpandedDutch euthanasiala w: It's timeto breakup thedeb�te by LindaEverett

Since the Netherlands formally established the practice of It's time to unceremoniously bust up the controlled de­ so-called voluntaryeuthanasia two decades ago, that nation, bate on the Dutch killing progtlam, which focused on non­ reaping plaudits from euthanasia organizations international­ existent patient "autonomy" about assisted suicide, but never ly, repeatedly showed its willingness to kill its patients as a allowed so much as a whisper about the economic impetus provision of "compassionate" medical care. Originally, only behind the ever-expanding neo-malthusian "compassion" a very restricted group of so-called terminally ill patients that so neatly killed off exactly _he people whose high medi­ who were sufferingunbearable pain and who made repeated cal costs might strain the health budget. requests for euthanasia allegedly received it. On Feb. 9, 1993, the Second Chamber of the Dutch Over the years, the Dutch government and that nation's Parliament passed legislation on the reporting procedure for courts demonstrated a most expansive capacityfor "compas­ euthanasia. The bill guarantees doctors' virtual immunity sion" as they were moved to approve or allow the "compas­ from prosecution if they follow the government's 28 "mea­ sionate" lethal injections for patients with "psychic" pain and sures of carefulness." Every doctor who has given euthana­ for non-terminal patients with incurable conditions. Soon, sia, whether the patient requested to be killed or not, is now their "compassion" extended even to those who were neither required to inform the coronet, and indicate in a written in pain nor terminally ill, as in the case of comatose patients, report that he has paid strict attention to a checklist of require­ or even the mentally ill and senile elderly. Of course there ments. The coroner, who is notlallowed to do an autopsy to was nothing "voluntary"about such premature deaths. But, confirm the cause of death, may examine the body superfi­ if you truly understood "compassion" from the Dutch per­ cially. The report is then reviewed by the public prosecutor, spective, you would know it is not necessaryfor a patient to who dismisses the case if he seelSno irregularities. Since the ask to be killed, for a Dutch doctor to fulfillhis or her duty to prosecutor must judge the case bnly on the basis of the doc­ deliver "compassionate" medical care and take him out of tor's report, and since the main Witness, the patient, is dead, his misery. Such a duty extends even unto the future of the prosecutor will findfew "' irregularities." handicapped newborn infants, and, after considering their Justice Minister Ernst IJirsch-Ballin says the new law quality of life, perhaps in releasing them and their family of will bring mercy killing into the open to be "regulated." such burdens. The Dutch Physicians Association said chil­ Hirsch-Ballin and State Secret� for Welfare, Health, and dren over eight years old should also have the benefits of Cultural Affairs Hans J. Simons set up a government study euthanasia. Anesthesiologist Pieter V. Admiraal so cared for on the practice of euthanasia in 1990, called the Remmelink the fate of his patients, that he produced for every Dutch Commission, after the attorney general who chaired it. It medical group and hospital an educational journal that de­ was this, the government's own study, that exposed how scribed the most effective killing methods and pharmaceuti­ entrenched the active killing of patients is in the Dutch health cals he had discovered. care system. The study found tHat one in every six deaths is Now, far too many people - Dutch and American alike ­ caused by the intentional killing!of patients - most of whom think maybe some form of the Dutch model, if regulated never asked to be killed. Of the 20,000 deaths reviewed: with protections for vulnerable patients, might be acceptable. 1,000 patients killed by fatal injection never asked for it; Don't be suckered! There are others who correctly warn of 8,000 patients, who never asked to be murdered, were killed the slippery slope. That is, be prepared for Nazi genocidal by doctors who ended their treatment, food, or water; 8,000 policies once a nation starts to compromise the sanctity of more who never asked to die,1 were killed by overdoses. human life. But even this veryvalid analogyis not sufficient These intentional killings are not reported as euthanasia, to break the brainwashing grip of euthanasia in Holland to­ since patients were killed involuntarily. These rampant kill­ day. Rather than a slippery slope,may we suggest a trap door ings are called "normal medical practice." large enough to swallow Gargantua? The ministers' main concern �s that involuntaryintention-

42 International EIR September 17, 1993 al killing by lethal injection should be regulated - hence the end of the century. For the past 15 to 20 years increasing new legislation. Ministers Hirsch-Ballin and Simons (who costs of treatment have been leading slowly to rationing. says, "We should not long for a long life, but one of good And rationing is leading slowly to euthanasia for economic quality" ), actually called for expanding the active involun­ reasons .• ..Not in the near future, but now." Doctor Wynen tarykilling of comatose and mentally ill patients, and desired points out that it is the collectivized or socialized medical the courts to give a "fullerruling" on the matter. The courts care deliverysystems, controlled by lIhestate and politicians, have already complied. that lead to such rationing.of services. Dutch physicians are expected t� set up explicit criteria Excuse fo r cost-cutting for admissions to such waiting lists t� further cost -efficiency. Now, Secretary of Health Simons has set up a Committee With the shift toward cheaper prevehtive care, they will be on Choices in Health Care which made sweeping cost-cutting expectedto define whatis "appropri.te" or "necessary"care proposals to the country's basic health care package. "Dutch for a critically ill patient. Thus, we set the explicit malthusian model" advocates argue that because the country's health philosophy of the Nazi state come into play: The best way to care system covers 60% of the population through a compul­ heal a patient is to kill him. The �mmelink Commission sory medical insurance program, there are no financial in­ urged specialists to spend more time iP training on addressing ducements for patients or families to accept euthanasia in lieu patients' end-of-life needs. A small group within the Dutch of costly care. But this is absolute nonsense. The induce­ Pediatric Society approves the acti� killing of severely ill ments come from the government itself! The Netherlands newborns, and, under the aegis of t�e Dutch Medical Soci­ faces the same calamitous economic crisis as most other ety, recommended that such infants � killed. The same com­ countries in the advanced sector. Such concerns have trig­ mittee recommends that coma patients be given lethal injec­ gered an upheaval in the state and private health insurance tions after three months of coma,! because, even if they systems, and in many cases, caused increases in personal recover, they will be a burden to s04iety and to themselves. insurance premiums for workers. Since 1985, the Nether­ The Dutch Medical Society will so

EIR September 17, 1993 International 43 police, judges, and elected offioials. Already during the 1960s, Bolland was floodedwith pro­ paganda according to which euthanasia would solve the prob­ lems caused by medical progress which often only "use­ lessly" prolonged life. Thus J. Bkelmans, a few years before he was to become president of tireDutch Euthana!,liaAssocia­ The Netherlandsmust not tion in 1973, wrote that people who could no longer live with others "in mutual real communication�' no longer possessed the right to defend their lives - under which he understood legalize euthanasia! cases of Alzheimer's disease, and severely brain-damaged by Helga Zepp-LaRouche traffic accident victims, who were in no way capable them­ selves of expressingtheir wish fpreutha nasia. His successor, Professor MUitendam, went yetfurther and Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche, the president of the Gennan Civil demanded that in cases where i the "desire for euthanasia" Rights Movement Solidarity, issued this statement in March were lacking - thus the victim hfmself wished to stay alive - 1993. the family ought to play "an important role." It is clear what this means in a society where hedonism and egoism are ac­ Old people and the physically and psychologically ill will cepted models of relationships. soon be without rights in Holland, and it will be possible for When the law was still being formulated, it was charac­ their physicians, even without their consent, to kill them. terized on target by Dr. Rutenfrans of the Catholic University The new euthanasia law voted in by the government and ofNijmegen: "It is the result of a compromise between Chris­ the parliament, which sanctioned a long-standing, already tian Democrats, who are satisfiedthat euthanasia shall remain intolerable unofficial practice, will without doubt lead to the formally prohibited, and the Liberals, who are also satisfied, mass murder of helpless patients, and can thence justifiably since euthanasia can be practiqed and is de facto not pun­ be compared to the Kristallnacht. against the Jews in the Third ished." Reich. The Vatican has not misin1lerpreted the law, but rather The spokesman of the Vatican, Monsignor Sgreccia, Sec­ has seen through the cheap trick of the Dutch government, retary of the Papal Family Council, was absolutely correct which in the face of possible resistance from Catholic and when he compared this new law with the policies of the Protestant circles to a bare-faced legalization of euthanasia, Nazis and warned that it would have the same consequences. would simply leave it up to the- doctors and lawyers, to put Henceforth in Holland, a human life can be ended when it is an end to a "life not worth livin$." no longer considered "economically profitable." The monsi­ Should this law go into eff¢ct - it is still not ratified by gnor's statement caused immediate uproar and indignation; the Senate - this would threaten to break the dam for similar the papal nuncio was summoned to the Foreign Ministryand developments everywhere. For! under the conditions of the the Vatican was accused of havingmisinterpreted the law. rapidly worsening world economic situation, cost-benefit Indeed, the Dutch government denies absolutely having thinking with regard to human life will increase. legalized euthanasia, claiming instead that they have merely codified existing medical guidelines. What this means in Principles of the Club of Life practice is that the same doctor who actively or passively has The basic principles of the Club of Life, which I founded helped someone die, can pronounce a "natural" cause of in 1982 as a counterpole to antirlife propaganda of the Club death, and can rest assured that he has followed "all the of Rome, read: rules." It is not likely that a doctor would accuse himself and "The coincidence of a new world economic crisis and write a report that he had violated the law! an ever more pronounced 'cultural pessimism signifies the Even before this law was passed, Holland was notorious danger, that the value of the individual life and the worth of for its de facto toleration of euthanasia. man be no longer seen as inviolable. The brutalitywith which According to evidence from their Justice Department, entire groups of people de facto are put into the 'useless there occurred about 5,000 euthanasia cases annually; ac­ eaters' category,irrespecti ve of �hese being old or sick people cording to the opponents of euthanasia, there were at least or people from the so-called Third World, signifies the dan­ 10,000 cases, that is, 10% of all deaths in Holland! A few ger of a new fascism." years ago, Baroness Adrienne von Till d' Aulnis de Bourneu­ What 10 years ago seemed Ito many people as exagger­ iI, the former president of the Dutch Association of Voluntary ated, is today unvarnished reality. And in the meantime, Euthanasia and executive member of the World Association the truth has come out about Mr. Henning Atrott, former of Euthanasia Organizations, emphasized in a speech that in president of the "Society For Humane Dying" (DGHS) in these cases, there would be "discreet" agreements with the Germany, and the subj ect of a feature story in Der Sp iegel

44 International EIR September 17, 1993 ("The Cyanide Gang"). Atrott and his aides have revealed themselves as an association of cynical cyanide dealers, Interview: P. van Duij enboden whose methods are reminiscent of the intrigues of the interna­ tional drug mafia. Atrott is nothing more than a criminal without a con­ science, shamelessly sucking the maximum personal profit from the sufferingof other people. Andthose in Holland in the government and the parliament, who now de facto have given euthanasia free rein, are not much better. 'Carecriteria' ushed For what does it mean to act recklessly against people who are weak and have no means to defend themselves? With such axioms underlying one's thinking and actions, the step for euthanasi from egoism to fascism is only a small one. Recently, in another context, Hans Barbier wrote in a Thefo llowing interview with Mr. van Duijvenboden of commentary in the FrankfunerAll gemeine Zeitung that ego­ the Dutch Patients Union (NPV) w conducted by written ism is the "plumbline of collective action" of society, and correspondence by Jutta Dinkerma n, a representative of that it was an injustice to the citizens of the West, and wrong, the Club of Life, on April 13, and h s been made available to accuse egoism - since we have it to thank for our economic to EIR with Mr. van Duijvenboden consent. Th e NP V is benefits- of being a painful disease. And these are in fact based in Ve enendaal, Netherlands. the premises of the so-called free market economy. It is naked Social Darwinism, in which the young and strong brutally Q: What are the goals and tasks of th Dutch Patients Union? use their elbows to shove the old and weak out of the way! Van Duijvenboden: We represent he interests of patients in Dutch health-care institutions and of course, those of our 'Lead or Leave' fa scists members in particular. Our goal is to rotect human life from Since the financialestablishment in the United States has the time of conception to death, do ng this on the basis of come to the consensus that it can no longer afford pensions, God's word. Among the most impo ant of the tasks of our social security, and health care, a new yuppie organization union is counseling and informati nal work, handling of has been founded, heavily financed by people such as Ross complaints, and training of volunt ers in home care. The Perot and Lee Iacocca, among others, called "Lead or NPV was founded in 1982. With 55 000 members,. it is the Leave," who are promoting their monstrosities at the univer­ largest patient organization in Holla d. sities. They assert that greedy old people, because of their high living standards and the high cost of their health care, Q: Can you tell us what the practice f euthanasia in Holland are taking away the resources from the young. To prevent has been? Can you give the numbe of people affected by this, they have announced a war between generations. That euthanasia? is how fast yuppies become fascists. Van Duijvenboden: In Holland, e thanasia is criminal by Is there not the great danger, that under conditions of a law. In recent years, however, a iscussion has emerged depression which is becoming more acute, ever more and whether it should remain so since, i practice, euthanasia is more people will be declared "useless eaters"? Do we not done anyway without punishment. government investiga­ already have alarming numbers of citizens who have accept­ tory commission was established to i vestigate how frequent­ ed the brainwashing of the Club of Rome, that the so-called ly euthanasia occurs, and was name after its chairman, Re­ Third World �s "overpopulated" (and hence that famines such mling, then the attorney general th the Dutch Supreme as in Somalia also have their advantages)? Court. Of course, this commission naturally covered only The decision of the Dutch government is a frightful alarm those cases of euthanasia that in fac were reported by doc­ signal, which tells us how far things have gone. Holland must tors. The number of cases not report d is thus unknown. be accused worldwide, condemned, and expelled from the The results of this investigation, hich were presented in community of nations until it repeals this law. September 1991, and the concludi g evaluation led to the One of the purposes, and not the least important, of the newly proposed change in the law, hich was discussed in founding of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity was to the lower house and passed in Fe uary of this year. The function as an international resistance movement, to parry discussion by the upper house, the S nate, will take place in such fascist dangers, and to defend the inalienable rights of May 1993; a decision is expected by mid-September. all people on this planet, implicit in their being created in imago viva Dei, in the living image of God. Q: What will the new Dutch euthan sia law change? Everyone who wants to defend life in these times must Van Duijvenboden: On the one ha d, euthanasia on request join us. will remain punishable; on the oth r hand, this legislative

EIR September 17, 1993 International 45 draft determines that a doctor who maintains certain rules of example increasing secularization. More and more people care and records this in writing will not be legally persecuted. have turned their backs on Christian belief and the related So-called involuntary euthanasia remains in any case for­ norms and values. Also, the �normous rise of the so-called mally punishable, and the doctor is obligated to report these right of self-determination, which has come to include even cases to the attorney general, who then examines the physi­ the termination of life, has cor1tributedto it. cian's maintenance report on the "rules of care." The NPV ! fears, however, that, increasingly, no further legal punish­ Q: Is there an organized res�stance apart from your own ment of these cases by the attorney general will occur. Addi­ activities? What in your opin�on must be done concretely? tionally, it is tempting simply not to report any case that does Can we of the Club of Life help? not fit the "care criteria." Va� Duijvenboden: The NPV is only one of many right to Generally, we can say that, immediately, little will life organizations in Holland . Other organizations are, for change in principle as a result of the new legal proposal. It example, Vereninging tot Be�cherming van het Ongeboren is, after all, the consequence of already existing practice. But Kind (VBOK) and many pro-l�fe professional organizations. we certainly have our concerns, because this legal proposal All these different organizatio�s work together in an umbrella opens the door for an increasingly widespread practice. Thus organization. This organizatiop will present a petition to the it is completely possible that, for example, demented old upper house soon. We must make veryobvious and clear to people, handicapped newborns, and comatose patients will it that a large portion of the! Dutch population is against legally and officiallysuffer involuntary euthanasia if the doc­ euthanasia. For that purpose,; signatures will be collected, tor proves that he has observedhis "care criteria," insofar as among other things. You can , help by also expressing your he reports the act at all. concern to the upper house.

Q: Everywhere in Europe and the United States, it is argued Q: A question at the request elfour American friends of the by interested groups that old people cost too much money. Club of Life: Holland is praise� by the euthanasia lobby there From a given age on, expensive medical treatment must be generally as an example wor�h imitating, as an "island of stopped, which in many cases is also a case of euthanasia. humanity" and of death wort�y of human beings. What is How is the discussion on this going with you in Holland? your message to the Americanipopulation? Van Duijvenboden: In Holland, economic motives formal­ Van Duijvenboden: Hollandi can indeed be given as an ex­ ly play no role in the decision to treat or not treat an old ample, but please not as an example "worth imitating." God's person. Rather, so-called quality of life criteria are used that, commands are holy and validlfor all, not merely for Chris­ among other things, concern whether the person needs help tians. That is also true for th¢, command, "Thou Shalt Not and can still (in the view of those making the decision) enjoy Kill." his life. Tied to answering this question, the decision is then made whether further treatment is sensible, which, because Q: Mr. van Duijvenboden, Wle thank you for this interview of the criteria used, more quickly turns out negative with old and with you and your comra�es-in-arms much success. people. Yo u, too, can help. As Mr. van Duijvenboden assured Q: Who are the political supporters of the practice of eutha­ us, fo reign lettersof protest re q.lly have an effect on the upper nasia, who are the opponents? house and the Dutch press. Here are the addresses given by Van Duijvenboden: In Holland, most political parties are him: not against euthanasia, as, for example, the Partij van de Arbeid (PVDA), the Demokraten '66 (D'66), and the Partij The chairman: Voor Vrijheid en Demokratie (VVD). The opponents are the Eerste Kamer der State1l1-Generaal La.v. Mr. H.D. small Christian parties such as the Staatkundig Gereformeer­ Tj eenk-Willink; Postbus 200P NL-2500 EA; Den Haag, de Partij (SGP), the Reformatorische Politieke Federatie Nederlands (RPF), and the Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond (GPVP). The The secretary: I Christelijk Demokratisch Appel (CDA) takes an intermediate Eerste Kamer der Staten�Generaal t.a.v. Drs. C.H.L. position. It wants to allow the criminal punishment to contin­ Balje; Postbus 20017 NL-250@ EA; Den Haag, Nederlands ue, but also thinks that euthanasia must be possible without Newspapers: legal prosecution. Dagblad; Postbus 111 NLr3770AC; Barneveld, Neder­ lands Q: In your opinion, what are the reasons that things have Refonnatorisch Dagblad;i Postbus 670 NL-7300 AR; gone so far in Holland? Apeldoorn, Nederlands Van Duijvenboden: The fact that euthanasia in Holland is Ka tholiek Nieuwsblad; Postbus 1270 NL-5200 BH; Den legalized has, in our opinion, a number of causes, as for Bosch, Nederlands

46 International EIR September 17, 1993 AustraliaDoss ier by Allen Douglas

Senate demands action on Bosnia Bosnia-Hercegovina." Th e Save Sarajevo Parliamentary Group scored U. N. and Corkovic'svisit to Australia, which European Community complicity in "deliberate genocide. " was sponsored by (he CEC, was crucial in mobilizing suppprt for the parliamen­ tary action. Said Corkovic, in a state­ ment released to th� press shortly before On Sept. 2, the Senate of Australia Ken Aldred and Paul Filing, named he left Australia on Sept. 3: "Bosnia is became the first federal legislative those responsible, in harsher terms on the verge of extinction, because the body in the world to denounce, as a than in the parliamentary motions: world's major po�ers and other respon­ body, the slaughter in Bosnia-Herceg­ "That the horrificevents presently tak­ sible democracies are not only refusing ovina, and to demand that militaryac­ ing place in Bosnia-Hercegovina, in­ to come to its aid tiutare also complicit tion be taken to stop it, by the United cluding deliberate genocide, are being in its destruction. 'mtisis the grim reality States and its allies. condoned by the United Nations, and confronting my n�tion of Bosnia-Her­ The resolution put forward by in­ by the European Community, is al­ cegovina." dependent Sen. Brian Harradine of most beyond belief in today's suppos­ Corkovic poi*ed to the moral cul­ Tasmania, which carried overwhelm­ edly civilized world." pability of all t�e 100 nations that ingly, includes the following points: The release continued, "The Save signed the 1948 I Convention on the "That the Senate a) deeply de­ Sarajevo Parliamentary Group calls Prevention and P�nishment of Geno­ plores the continuing loss of life upon the Australian government to cide. "Four montijsago in the Interna­ caused by the aggression against the apply maximum diplomatic pressure tional Court of Nstice, the rulings of sovereign Republic of Bosnia-Her­ for the conclusion of peace negotia­ that court establi�hed that Serbia and cegovina, especially by Bosnian Serb tions that protect the people and integ­ its surrogates weI!ecommitting geno­ forces; and b) calls upon the interna­ rity of Bosnia-Hercegovina and also cide," he said. "OYer 100 nations have tional community, including the for the implementation of Internation­ signed this convention and it is the law U.N., to take decisive action to end al Court of Justice rulings against of their land. This includes Aus­ the continuing bloodshed and suffer­ genocide in that country. tralia." ing in Sarajevo and elsewhere in "In this respect the group wel­ In addition to the statements made Bosnia-Hercegovina. " comes the strong statements made by: by Cardinal Kuharic, Dr. Haque, and The resolution further specifies Cardinal Franjo Kuharic, archbishop Rabbi Heilbrunri, reported in last that the Senate "requests that the of Zagreb; Dr. M.N. Haque, chair­ week's EIR ("Geqeva Talks on Bosnia U.N., the United States, the United man of the Australian Federation of Collapse as O).ltctY Against Genocide Kingdom, and their European allies Islamic Councils; Rabbi P. Heil­ Grows"), the Bosnian Muslim Party take all necessary action, including brunn, president of the Association of of Democratic Action's executive military action if needed, to prevent Rabbis and Ministers of Australia and committee met on Aug. 29, and unan­ further slaughter and deprivation in New Zealand; Mr. Esad Zorlak, on imously issued a blistering statement the Sarajevo area." behalf of Bosnian Muslims in Austra­ on who is responsible for the continu- The Senate action capped an in­ lia; Dr. Nedzib Sacirbey, representa­ ing slaughter: ' tensive several weeks of organizing tive of the Bosnian President in the "We are exptessing our outrage inside the parliament by the Save Sar­ U.S.A.; by Mr. Marshall Freeman against the leader$hip of the European ajevo Parliamentary Group, and out­ Harris, former U.S. State Department Community in general, Britain and side it by the Citizens Electoral Coun­ adviser on Bosnia-Hercegovina; and France in particular, for their criminal cils (CEq, the Australian co-thinkers Mr. Stephen Corkovic, member of the support of the cdntinuing aggression of Lyndon LaRouche. executive committee of the Bosnia­ and genocide agllinst Bosnian Mus­ On Aug. 19, a motion presented Hercegovina Information Center in lims and their active role in preventing by one of the members of the Save Ottawa, Canada. us from defending ourselves. Sarajevo Parliamentary Group, Ted "Both Cardinal Kuharic and Mr. "We deman� to stop British­ Grace, had been debated in the House Corkovic recently visited Canberra French-backed genocide and to re­ of Representatives. for meetings with various Australian move one of its dhief facilitators, the Then, in a release issued on Sept. community leaders, who are con­ European Commfssion 'mediator' in 7, the group, initiated by Liberal MPs cerned about the tragic situation in Bosnia, 'Lord' David Owen."

EIR September 17, 1993 International 47 FromNew Delhi by Ramtanu Maitra

, India eyes debate in Japan on NPT I gram. Indi�, which has had a 30-year Th e discriminatory aspects of the non-proliferation treaty are nuclear pr ram, plans to use plutoni­ under fire� as the U. S. ups the pressure on India. um on a la e scale as the fissilemate­ rial, obtail ed from the spent fuel in Indian nuc�ear power plants, for load­ ing its fast Ibreeder reactors ' . The new non-prolif ration policy will pitch In­ In the wake of Aug. 6, Hiroshima Day nuclear weapons, the article conclud­ dia square I against the United States in Japan, that city's mayor, Takashi ed: "Japan has been an active NPT on the nucf, ear issue. Already, Wash­ Hiraoka, launched a stinging attackon member striving to expand the non­ ington has ade it known that it would the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty proliferation regime .. ..[Howev er], be difficult. or New Delhi to get equip­ (NPT), which expires in 1995 and a message by concerned people in Hi­ ment for i� s fertilizer manufacturing whose indefinite extension is now vig­ roshima may provide an explanation facilities, �ince India uses the feeds­ orously sought by the nuclear weapons for the Japanese government's hesita­ tock from tre fertilizer plants to manu­ countries, particularly the United tion in agreeing to an unconditional facture he vy water, a coolant and States, Russia, and Great Britain. and indefinite extension of the NPT. moderator or its Candu-type nuclear Hiraoka's missive, addressed to It gives great expression to what the power pia ts. then-Prime Minister KiichiMiyazawa Japanese people feel about the treaty." To ke its non-signatory status, on behalf of Japan's 340,000 atom In the West, this may be mistaken­ Indiawill ave to mobilize some inter­ bomb survivors, said: "For all our ap­ ly interpreted as Japan's desire to national c unterpressure. In the con­ preciation of the NPT having served build nuclear weapons. However, it text of the isit of Indian Prime Minis­ certain purposes of nuclear non-pro­ should be recalled that Japan took sev· ter Narasi ha Rao to Beijing on Sept. liferation, we can never allow it­ en years of soul-searching before join­ 5, China h S indicated that it does not speaking from our position as citi­ ing the treaty. According to some approve of any outside pressure on In­ zens - to be extended indefinitely. sources, Japan is particularly angry dia to sign he NPT. ...Nuclear weapons states have nev­ that while Britain and France are per­ In Mari h, Japan's ambassador for er been faithful to the commitments mitted to be nuclear powers, Germany Arms Coptrol and Disarmament, to nuclear disarmament ever since the an� Japan are not. Mitsuro Dbnowaki, led a delegation treaty came into force ....Nuclear In India, which has refused to sign to India fO talkS. Japan indicated that weapons, or at least ideas permissive the NPT, these developments in Japan it is fully ware of the inadequacies to the presence of nuclear weapons, are being watched carefully. India and anom lies of the NPT. After the must not be carried over to the 21st long ago crossed the nuclear thresh­ collapse 0f the Soviet Union, China century." old, but has scrupulously maintained became a I major recipient of Mos­ Hiraoka's anguish reflects a the non-proliferation regime. India is cow's nuc�ear technologyand equip­ broadening view in Japan against the also under heavy pressure from the ment. JaPtn noted ruefully that the discriminatory aspects of the NPT. Clinton administration to give up its NPT, whilp it prevents transfer of nu­ Former Japanese Prime Minister Ya­ non-signatorystat us, and Washington clear techpology from "haves" to suhiro Nakasone, in an article, has has mobilized Russia, Britain, and "have-not�," helps to add to the cautioned the United States that con­ Germany to exert pressure on India to "haves' "� i arsenal, creating major sensus for an indefinite extension of sign the treaty. However, Washing­ power im lances in Asia. the NPTwould not be easy. Also note­ ton's efforts in late 1991 to induce Ja­ But In ia is also aware that the worthy is an editorial in the presti­ pan to tie its aid to India to the latter's new Japa ese government of Prime gious Japanese magazine Atoms in Ja­ signing of the NPT had failed. Minister orihiro Hosokawa, a rene­ pan in July. Noting the full-court The Clinton administration has gade me er of the Liberal Demo­ pressure applied against Japan by the now made it known that its soon-to­ cratic Partfwho came to power cam­ United States at the Group of Seven be-announced non-proliferation poli­ paigning Mainst "corruption," has summit in Tokyo, where Miyazawa cy will prohibit production of fissile already in�icated its approval for an warned that Japan might have to de­ material, irrespective of the fact that indefinite extension of the NPT. But velop its own nuclear capability if the fissilematerial is the backbone of Japan's lit�rate voters, India hopes, North Korea persisted in developing the commercial nuclear power pro- may think ptherwise�

48 International EIR September 17, 1993 Reportfrom Rio by SilviaPalacios

Freeing terrorists: Collor's finalact On Aug. 21, Arns gave a televised Th e continentalterrorist network which blew its cover in interview in which he expressed his conviction that the participation of the Ma nagua has high-level friends in church and government. two Canadian terrorists in the Diniz kidnapping was: "minor," and that through his com.tersations with a Ca­ nadian bishop, h� had been convinced that the two had *Iways behaved well. T he case is considered unheard ·of delegate and vice president of Interpol His defense Ci>fthe Canadians was in the annals of Brazilian diplomatic for Thero-America, Romeo Tuma, de­ not limited to m�re words. According history. On Aug. 23, the Senate ap­ clared: "Diniz's kidnappers went to the Brazilian press,the cardinal had proved a decree, prepared in July through Cuba, through Nicaragua, earlier sent a faX to Justice Minister 1992 by the ForeignAff airs Ministry and through EI Salvador, and I Jarbas Passarinhp during the reign of at the request of since-deposed Presi­ haven't the slightest doubt that the the Collor government, pleading the dent FernandoCollor de Mello, which connection is global and extends to "innocence of tlle girl." Arns is very formalizes a deal struck earlier with Europe." He added that, in 1988 in familiar with th� case, since he acted the Canadian mafia. According to the Hamburg, there was a major meeting as mediator beivVeen the Diniz family decree, Brazil and Canada will now of world terrorist leaders at which an and the kidnapp�rs. Clearly, his sym­ conduct prisoner exchanges, permit­ extensive kidnapping campaign to fi­ pathies were on ;the wrong side. An­ ting convicts to serveout their senten­ nance guerrilla operations was other person committed to defending ces in their respective countries. launched. Other, similar meetings the new decree 110 free the Canadians The measure was drafted solely took place in Chile and Argentina. is Sen. Eduardo Suplicy, a member of and exclusively to benefit two terror­ Although the Senate's approval of the Workers Paqy leadership. ists, Canadians David Spencer and the Collor-era decree has triggered a Throughout the case, the "Canadi­ Christine Lamont, who have been huge scandal in the country, this has an connection"i is always visible. sentenced in Brazil to 28 years in jail not prevented the terrorists from re­ Pressure on the Brazilian authorities for their part in the 1989 kidnapping of ceiving public expressionsof support. to free the pair came fromthe highest businessman Abilio Diniz, who owns The most significant came from levels of the Canadian government. Brazil's largest supermarket chain. In Cardinal Evaristo Ams, archbishop of Canadian Amba�sador to Brazil Wil­ Canada, the maximum they will have Sao Paulo, and friendof Fidel Castro, liam Dymon cantied out apparently ef­ to serve before their release is three the Sandinistas, and the Marxist fective lobbying in the Congress, and years. Workers Party (PT). It is no accident was present in the Senate on the day The history of the two Canadian that Arns isconsidered the "chaplain" of the vote. According to the Sept. kidnappers reveals that the continental of the Sao Paulo Forum, the organiza­ 1 issue of the magazine Vej a, then­ terrorist network which many be­ tion made up of everypro-communist Prime Minister Qf Canada Brian Mul­ lieved long dead and buried, is in fact and pro-terrorist group on the conti­ roney personally interceded with CoI­ more alive and organized than ever. nent, under the baton of the Cuban lor during the June 1992 Eco-92 envi­ Its dimensions surfaced last May 23, Communist Party. ronmentalist "Earth summit" in Rio de when a clandestine weapons cache Ams is also one of the best lobby­ Janeiro to urge �assage of the decree. kept by the Salvadoran FMLN blew ists whom the Anti-Defamation What is pubUcly known of the spe­ up in Managua, Nicaragua. In the fol­ League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) has in cial relationship former President CoI­ lowup investigations, documents with Brazil, through his close friendship lor de Mello had with Canada includes Spencer and Lamont's names were with the influential Henry Sobel. So­ his ties to mafioso Edgar Bronfman, discovered by the Nicaragua police, bel, rabbi of the Paulist Israelite Con­ president of the! World Jewish Con­ along with the names of dozens of gregation and coordinator of the Na­ gress and a leaping ADL financier. Brazilian businessmen who were tar­ tional Commission for Catholic­ The first privat� meeting with an in­ gets for kidnapping. Jewish Dialogue, which is part of the fluential figure that Collor held after Concerning the role Brazil plays National Bishops Council of Brazil, is taking office in: January 1990, was in the terrorist network revealed in also president of the Brazilian Com­ with Bronfmanf That meeting was Managua, the Brazilian federal police mittee in the former Soviet Union. also attended by! Rabbi HenrySobel .

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Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who headed Poland's cial told tl�eLos Angeles Times: "We know Sharon out to wreck firstnon-communist government, formed in it was on the front end, and after that who Is raeli deal with PL O 1989. knows? You cannot tra,ck a ship minute by According to the poll, six other parties minute." However, other western officials Ariel Sharon of Israel's Likud Party is play­ exceeded the 5% threshold required for en­ agree that �t would have been extremely dif­ ing a leading role in mobilizing Israeli oppo­ tryinto the Parliament under the new elec­ ficult for the Yinhe crew, which was under sition to the peace agreement with the Pales­ tion law: the right-wing Confederation for constant sprveillance, to have secretly dis­ tine Liberation Organization (PLO), .the Independent Poland (KPN); the pro-free posed of I\PY cargo. market Non-Party Bloc in French daily Le Figaro reported on Sept. Support of Re­ A stat;ement published by the official 6. Sharon raved: "The Rabin government forms (BBWR), centered around President Chinese nFws agencyXinhua said that "re­ should not offerArafat a summer residence Lech Walesa; the pro-IMP Liberal-Demo­ cently, t�e U.S. has so often willfully cratic Congress; the leftist Labor Union in Gaza or a winter residence in Jericho. It brought ptessure to bear on other countries must prepare for him a glass cage, in a tribu­ (UP); the UD, which supports the trade on the gr�nds of its so-called intelligence, union Solidarnosc;and the Fatherland coali­ nal in Jerusalem, where he will be judged as which w$ no more than hearsay or self­ tion of Christian Democratic parties. invented $tories. The Yinhe incident is only a war criminal .. .•Arafat has more Jewish x m l in blood on his hands than any other criminal one e a p e this regard. The U.S. has in since Nazism. It is possible to make peace acted a* utterly indiscreet and irresponsi­ mann r." with the Palestinians. There is no reconcilia­ ble q tion possible with an assassin of Jewish chil­ Ch ina denounces dren or Jewish athletes at the Munich Olym­ U. S. pic games of 1972." over ship incident Va tic�su pp orts Sharon has called for a "rebellion" of Mideast "m iracle ' opposition forces led by the Likud Party. The Beijing government has accused the According to Le Figaro, Sharon is sup­ United States of "hegemonism and power Vatican Radioon Sept. 1 urged listeners to ported by the new head of the Likud, Benja­ politics pure and simple," because of an in­ welcome 'fthe miracle at the Israeli-Palestin­ min Netanyahu, who is warning that an cident on the high seas involving the Chi­ ian negoti�tions." The radio's director, Fa­ agreement with the PLO constitutes "a re­ nese ship Ymhe. The U.S. Navy has pursued ther Pasq�ale Borgomeo, made clear that nunciation of Zionism.. •.We have not the vessel since Aug. 3, when it entered the the deal sljillfaced many obstacles. Among fought for 3,000 years, we have not built the Indian Ocean en route to the Persian Gulf. those "en�mies" waiting to ambush any set­ Zionist movement, to come to this." The United States claimed that the ship was tlement, he said, were the "extremists on carrying chemical warfare materials to Iran. both sides� the blind partisans of 'all or noth­ On Sept. 5, the U.S. State Department ing' who *em to have learned nothing from was forced to admit that an inspection of decades of bloodshed and failure." Others Poll in Poland the ship's 600 containers had "revealed no include tqose for whom a "peace between evidence of these chemicals aboard that Israelis and Palestinians would mean the end shows voter discontent ship." The U.S. State Department, con­ of their political leverage, and the arms mer­ vinced it had intelligence that two chemi­ chants fori whom every victory of peace on An opinion poll taken in Poland prior to cals, thidiglycol and thionyl chloride, were our planet spells doom." national elections on Sept. 19 shows grow­ being shipped to Iran for use in chemical NeveJheless, Father Pasquale Borgo­ ing support for the former communist Peo­ weapons manufacture on the Ymhe, hara­ meo concluded, "J;leace is possible, despite ple's Democratic Alliance (SLD) and the ssed the ship on the high seas for weeks, and everythin�. Peace is near. God forbid that Polish Peasant Party, reftecting voter dissat­ refused to allow it to sail to its destinations hopes shohld once again be dashed and that isfaction with the government's austerity in Iraq and Iran. The Chinese, who had re­ reason, juktice, and humanity be defeated." policies. peatedly asserted at the highest government The third place in the poll is held by the levels that the ship was carrying only harm­ Democratic Union (UD), which has domi­ less cargoes to Iraq and Iran, agreed to an In dia nd Ch ina sign nated Poland's governments supporting inspection by Chinese, Saudi, and U.S. of­ b "shock therapy" and InternationalMonetary ficials in a Saudi port, where nothing was accord to reduce tensions Fund (IMP) austerity since 1989. The UD found. is headed by Bronislaw Geremek, a close U.S. officialshave refusedto apologize, India and China signed a "milestone" agree­ associate of Hungarian-American financier claiming that they acted in good faith on ment to rdduce border tensions on Sept. 7, George -Soros. One of the leaders of the the basis of intelligence from "a number of during Indian Prime Minister Narasimha Democratic Union is former Prime Minister credible sources." One senior Clinton offi- Rao's vislit to Beijing. The two nations

50 International EIR September 17, 1993 • PERUVIAN AUTHORITIES captured a member of the central committee of the narco-terrorist Shining Path on Sept. 2, leaving only three more at large. Rosa Angelica Salas de la quz was in charge of press and prop�ganda for the guerril­ system must undoubtedly logically include agreed to respect the "line of control" that las, and is believed to have given the has existedsince the end of the border ballistic missile early waming systems, al­ 1962 orders for the recent massacre of 60 war, and to reduce forces deployed forward though they are officially separate. The Ashaninka Ind ans. in the border areas. reader probably knows what I am talking f The agreement does not establish a bor­ about - the well-known phased array radars • UNREST IN THAILAND der in the disputed regions, but could lay the in outlying regions of the former U.S.S.R." caused Prime Minister Chuan Leek­ basis for doing so in the futijre. The two pai to cut shOrt his planned lO-day nations also agreed to keep each other in­ visit to China. In Thailand's three formed of troop movements 'in the border Ha iti 's new leaders southernprovi �ces, schools are clos­ area, and to expand border trade by opening ing early and wlice presence is being up at least one more border trading point. move against military strengthened �ter the latest violent incident in whiph a passenger bus was As the new Haitian governmenttakes office, attacked. At l�ast six people died in it is moving swiftly to eliminate the influ­ violence in A�gust, which included Russian paper details ence of the Haitian militaryas an institution arson attacks oj1schools, an attack on defending national sovereignty. The gov­ a train, and a Qombing of a Buddhist Moscow ABMsystem ernmentis supported fromabroad by ousted monastery. . dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Organi­ , The Russian newspaper Izv estia on Aug. 25 zation of American States, and the U.S. • MARGARET THATCHER, described Moscow's antiballistic-missile State Department. the former Btitish prime minister, defense system. According to the 1972 Speaking from Paris, Aristide charged: said in a speech in Bangkok, Thai­ ABMTreaty, each side was allowed to have "For 200 years, our Army went from coup land on Sept. !7 that the tragedy in one ABM system to protect one of its cities. d'etat to coup d'etat, maintaining a state of Bosnia shows tjhat the United Nations Correspondent Viktor Litovkin said this was corruption. Each year, some $200 million cannot be reliqd upon as a world po­ the firsttime that the ABM system had been enters Haiti bcause of drug trafficking in liceman. "The euphoric talks, of described to the public, and also the first which our most senior officers are involved which so much was heard just a year time that its designer's name, Anatoly Ba­ up to their necks. That is why they have or two ago, of!the U.N. as an effec­ sistov, had appeared in print. money to buy weapons to kill so many tive arbiter and world policeman, has "The system will not allow a single nu­ people." been shown tq be just that - and no clear explosion dangerously close to Mos­ The new prime minister, Robert Malval, more," she sai�. cow," Basistov said. "It has been designed 24 hours after taking office on Aug. 31, to automatically detect warheads in flight began meetings with the U.N. and U.S. of­ • BOSNIAN Foreign Minister without human involvement, distinguish ficials on how to subdue and "reform" the Haris Silajdzic; speakingin Turkey on them from clutter - decoys or combined Army and the police. The Los Angeles Sept. 2, denounced the partition plan ABM countermeasures - and destroy them Times reported that each police unit will be that the Bosnian governmenthad been unerringlyin the air, preventing the charge assigned trainers, as part of the "cleansing pressured to a�pt in Geneva. "The fromdetonating." of the most offensivemembers of the police message pres�ted is that of sheer Litovkin described some of the compo­ force." As for the Army, a U.S. military force, genocid�, and killing people," nents of the system: "The 'pyramid' orient­ advisory group of 50 will be brought in to he charged. "If�ou have force, you are ed to the four comers of the globe with an­ "retrain what remains of the Army," with able to take other people's property. tennas 16 meters in diameter is perhaps one the aim "to eliminate the extensive human It's the law of $e jungle." of the main components in the system. It is rights violations that mark militarybehavior this pyramid $at is designed to detect and and turn the troops into border protectors • CARDIN4.L Roger Etchegaray intercept ballistic missiles, track them, and and road builders." was in Beijing the firstweek of Sep­ guide antimissile missiles to their targets." The new information minister, Herve tember, the first visit by a high-level "The radar," reported Litovkin, "is ser­ Denis, has begun to dismantle "the mili­ Vatican offichU since 1958. He said viced by a highly productive computer tary'spropaganda apparatus ...halting all that his trip W!l/iunofficial, but would (around a billion operations per second). It local current affairs programming on state not rule out Mlding meetings aimed enables the 'space wars' algorithm to be radio or television." U.S. officialLawrence at improving Vatican relations with tracked in real time, that is second by sec­ Pezzulo said recently that the military con­ the Beijing government.The cardinal ond, at the same time as events are hap­ trol of the media and its "xenophobic misin­ heads the Pontifical Council for Jus­ pening." terpretation of events" had done a disservice tice and Peace. Litovkin added that "the ABM defense to the country.

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Gen. NOriega: The c9lito resistance will never 'die

General Ma nuel Antonio Noriega, commander-in-chief of talking more about Haiti, because it is here in the American Panama 's ArmedForces until the U. S. invasion of December hemisphere. Why did the UniteliStates delay in Haiti's case, 1989, gra nted the fo llowing exclusive interview to EIR's when they didn't in Panama? That's what I want people to Sp anish-language sisterpublication Resumen Ej ecutivo, on think about. They didn't move earlier against Haiti, because Ju ne 18, 1993 in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in the problem there is long-standing, it is historic. Since the Miam� Florida. Theinterview has been slightly abridged. time of "Papa Doc," they hare had dictators, repression, violation of human rights, and deeper problems such as igno­ Em: The U.S. troops that invaded Panama yesterday are rance, disease, etc., etc., and the United States has always bombing Somalia today, and getting ready to intervene in turnedits back on those problems. Why are they now interest­ Haiti tomorrow. What do you have to say to this? ed, and why, if the problem go�s back much further than that Noriega: Yes, we are now facing specific actions where the of Panama - because it stems from the '40s and '50s under United States has been perfecting its capabilities as a grinder, "Papa Doc" - didn't they take action earlier? Simply because like a mower that chews up the grass. In Panama, for exam­ in Haiti there is no canal. Hait� is not a strategic position for ple, they were the main protagonists, but, since the world the United States. That is whyithey went and invaded Pana­ fell upon them, and they were criticized by the international ma, because there is a canal the�e, and it is of strategic interest community, the establishment has turned to its United Na­ to the United States beyond th€1year 2000. tions project to set up the "new order." Thus we see their Now, [we have] this blockade, the use of the United actions in Somalia, where they are destroying a population, Nations to carry out blockade$ against humanity- because an entire community - and note the fact that that community to impose a global blockade againstHaiti is to blockade, not is black - without scruples, to avenge the death of 23 soldiers the governing junta, but the peqple of Haiti; this Machiavelli­ and to capture one man. an approach, that the ends jUstify the means, is a crime There, too, we can see how, historically, as new govern­ against humanity. It strikes at the very Christian conscience ments emerged in those African countries • • • the Reagan­ of the world; it is a blow against the humanitarian sentiment Bush administration tried to put in its weapons and govern­ of peace upon which the United Nations Organization is ments instead, and now there is a saturation of weapons there; predicated and for which it wa$ founded. that is, each American-sponsored leader had an arsenal of i American weapons. And that is what the American govern­ Em: Alsoin the case of Haiti� they are tryingto destroy its ment provoked: The explosion came fromthe fact that, after Armed Forces. Panama's Defense Forces are gone. From doing away with the ideological Marxist governments,those this perspective, with all the exjperience of the Defense Forc­ groups which had been encouraged to take political control of es and what has happened to Panama, what recommendations the area remained. Also, we are dealing with a geopolitically would you have for the governments and armed forces of strategic position, the Horn of Africa.Now, the United States Thero-America? seems ,to be taking a step back, but it is nonetheless imposing Noriega: In terms of knowledge from experience and from its "new order" strategy. As they say in Latin America, it is books - because the study of history gives one a handle on pulling the sausages out of the fire, but with someone else's history-we see that history i� made up of cycles. No one [the U.N.'s] hands. learns from the experiences of other nations or of other men; In Haiti, we see that precisely the same thing is going to such is human nature, human! behavior. We are facing the happen. They took a long time in Haiti's case, and I am cyclein which the theory of imposing the "new order" will

52 Interview EIR September 17, 1993 bring its own consequences. Right now, this is the rule of the game of the superpower; one can no longer speak in the plural, because there exists only one superpower, the United States, which is imposing its "new order" upon the entire world. But reality, developments in the geographic situation of the nations of this planet Earth, are going to force that "new order" to fall into disuse by the sheer force of conviction and of human evolution. What I want to say is this: F!om this critical situation, in which people are being led to destroy their armed forces, the logical outcome is going to be chaos. Chaos against whom? Against the populations themselves. Let'snot look at it glob­ ally, but people by people, country by yountry; the result is anarchy. A country without its forces of order must fall into anarchy. The forces of order themselves must have an inter­ nal order. And that cannot be with the creation of police forces, as is being done in Panama, because this is the cre­ ation of happy-go-lucky policemen, as I call them, armed with whistles and nightsticks, and that's what they want for Latin America. But this does not constitute security for the communities, because crime is rising, human misery iS'rising, and the walls of containment, which should be the armed forces, have deteriorated or do not exist at all, as in Panama. Take a look in the mirror of Panama, a country whose Armed Forces were destroyed. Within two or three months, it became a country where vice, crime, and human needs had Gen. Ma nuel Antonio Noriega increased. It is a country where one cannot go out afterseven in the evening. A country which had no kidnappings for 21 years (and if there were any, they were solved within four it's the armed forces which are violating human rights. The hours), where robberies were under control, where people United States government and so-c lIed human rights organi­ could stay out all night; now, no one dares go out after zations, the United Nations and Organization of American seven at night. Now there are assaults and robberies in broad States, have a violent campaign against the Peruvian Armed daylight. There is a cop, with whistle and nightstick, who Forces. sees a robbery or a crime and turns his back, because it is not You studied in Peru, at the Peruvian militaryacademy, his problem, and he is not going to get involved in a situation and so I'd like to ask you how you �ee the situation there. in which he is just a pawn on the chessboard. Noriega: Because I studied there, ] have a bit more familiari­ That's how it will happen in EI Salvador, Guatemala, the ty, and what I would say is that thJ Peruvian Armed Forces rest of Central America, and all the countries where the "new were created on the basis of their experience: the fight for order" establishment is intervening. We can already see the independence and, later, the War of the Pacific. They were tip of the iceberg in Argentina, for example, where the Armed created with a profound nationalist sentiment. They were also Forces is definitively marked for destruction. We can also armed forces shaped, basically, b their indigenous cultural see this, as a spearhead, in Brazil. So, this is a plan against the foundations. Their ideological makeup is nationalist and that Armed Forces which is going to unleash chaos and anarchy. nationalism includes a lack of reveJence for imperialism and Then another thing will happen: The theory of the "new neo-colonialism. They are an Armbd Forces which by tradi­ order" will collapse, and, therefore, we cannot at this time, tion have found their own solution to their own problems on while the machinery is moving, do anything to stop it. The the basis of their own socio-economic situation, above all, people themselves and history itself will put an end to it. that of the Indians. Since they dori't yield, since they don't depend on a superior power, thel superpower acts like a EIR: We can see that there is a major effort under way to spoiled brat, beating or trying to destroy it, and that is the destroy the Armed Forces of Peru. There is Shining Path, reality in Peru today. which is a terrorist group of a kind never before seen in So we see the typical cycle of destruction: infiltration, Ibero-America, entirely against the population, carrying out gray propaganda, trying to entice members of the Armed massacres all over, and yet the United States insists that Forces to go against the institutio l , dividing the Army and

EIR September 17, 1993 Interview 53 having the best cadres fight among themselves. political parties; chaos and anarchy in the disillusionment of the people's political course. So, the people begin to develop EIR: What is the situation of the drug trade in Panama? an internal awareness; nobody! has to tell them, nobody has From the time when you were commander-in-chief of the to go to school to know it. Thi� internal awareness is one of Defense Forces to the present day, what has happened regard­ rebellion and it is going to cteate a so-called "vengeance ing the drug trade? vote" -that's the name I would give it, VV, or vengeance Noriega: I can tell you that statistics speak for themselves, vote -in 1994. above all, those statistics that are produced here in the United Why? Because the people iare going to take revenge si­ States. They indicate - there is even a Senate committee lently. Against whom? They! are going to take revenge which made the calculations - that there is an increase in against those who allowed, t�ose who helped, those who money laundering, that deposits of drug p10ney are taking accepted, and those who collabprated and supported the inva­ place shamelessly. You yourselves have published the facts sion. They will take revenge 0, the Panamanian Petains. in your magazine. There will be a vengeance Ivote from Chorrillo for every Where do the accusations come from?The United States. bomb that imperialism and neb-colonialism dropped on the If it were a white and pure and crystalline country, there wounded fatherland: on Chorrillo, on Rio Hato, against Co- wouldn't even be a mark. But the veryPresident of the repub­ 16n. For every death there will ibe50 votes against. lic [Guillermo Endara] has been presented here as a member We can see how the Panam.nian people are silently form­ of criminal gangs. Here, in this verybuilding [Miami's Met­ ing a resistance, a passive resistance like the French had. The ropolitan Correctional Center], there are a couple of individu­ French laughed at the Germans during the occupation of als named [Augusto "Willie"] Falc6n and [Salvador] Maglu­ France. The women danced, and there was prostitution, and ta, who stand accused [of traffickingtons of cocaine.] There the bars were open; but, on the inside, when the time for are ten boxes worth of charges against Mr. Guillermo Endara getting "to the barricades" canjle, everyone was at the barri­ and his partners, [cases] in which [Falc6n and Magluta] were cades, and, instead of carrying bread under their arms, they his clients. carried rifles. The same is truelof the Panamanian people, in a passive and silent resistanCe, awaiting the moment to EIR: How do you view the situation in terms of what has avenge the offense. That is gCl>ing to be the moment of the happened and what is going to happen politically in Panama? elections, and they are going t� cast a vote of vengeance. What can one hope fromthe coming elections? I Noriega: ...Many people thought that [the invasion] was EIR: Nonetheless, it would appear that none of today's par­ manna from heaven,a panacea, the goodness of the gringos, ties have stood up for the Defense Forces, for the work of the beauty of the United States, Santa Claus, and all that. the Defense Forces, for the donstruction of a Panamanian They discovered instead that it was a wolf in sheep's clothing, nationality through its Armed forces and, of course, for the and in that disguise they swallowed up the entire Panamanian defense of the canal and the p<1ssibilitythat this would allow oligarchy; because it was from the homes of the members of the canal treaties to be fulfille�. the Union Club [the center of Panama's oligarchy], that those What are the possibilities �hat former militarypersonnel who led the foreign invasion were egged on, encouraged, who are now civilians will �lay an important role in the and supported, and now they are the ones sufferingthe conse­ political arena, in this new political opening? quences. Noriega: I am drawing a m_p of the situation with you, developing an analysis that I k.ow will be picked up by those EIR: There are those who have repented? who study the socio-political problems of societies. The cri­ Noriega: There are penitents and repentance. Not only that, sis under way is total. With the defeat and destruction of they have found that the current regime does not shower, but the Defense Forces, anything ithat smelled like the Defense bathes in tubs, as we say vulgarly, so they don't splash, Forces was smashed, was devastated, was repudiated, be­ everything is for them alone. So, the 21 families are eating cause those were the psychol�gical and sociological condi­ the whole cake; they don't spatter. If you are not part of the tions of the moment; and the� still persist, but less so now. only center of government, the presidential Palace of the Those conditions are fading in!the face of today's reality. Herons, you don't get, you don't receive. So, there is no The people themselves ndw realize that they need their shower, just a tub. Defense Forces. They are cdming to realize that the role of the Defense Forces went far beyond that of an armed EIR: And what can be expected from the coming elections? institution. It was a civic institution based on the organiza­ Noriega: Within the current situation there is both growing tions of the countryside, the Ifarmers, the peasants. These public awareness and chaos. That is, chaos and awareness are men exist, these men are not! dead. And [the influence of] growing in tandem. Chaos and anarchy in the proliferation these men is multiplied by their families. And where are of police crimes; chaos and anarchy in the proliferation of they? They are also in the resistance, because they can't go

54 Interview EIR September 17, 1993 out and do anything because they, too, would be victimized, of Infamy. And that is how I see it, and it will go down in the as many have been, being either expropriated or in jail. Why history books of our coming generations, that Dec. 20 in do they have in jail 60, 70, 90, 100 corporals, sergeants, Panama was the day of treason, th I day of darkness, when privates? Why do they hold them prisoner if they don't bear the laws, the international rules, t�e treaties of the United any responsibility? That is why they don't want to offer an Nations, of the Organization of �erican States - which amnesty, because these men and their families exist. later condemned the invasion - we e totally violated by the Thus . . . the [political parties] all worshipped in the halls most powerful nation in the world, against the smallest nation of the imperialist invaders, and all the political parties beat on earth. their chests and accepted the instructions they got in the halls It is true that many people had warnedI us. We ourselves of the imperialist invaders, and one of the things they were saw it as a logical consequence: Invasion was a major option. told from the first moment onward was "deny the armed But for a long time, ever since the signing of the [Panama forces, deny your connection to them, deny their presence, Canal] treaties with [President Gen Omar] Torrijos, when­ loathe them, attack them." And they did so, they all went on ever a critical situation arose, the United States would deploy the attack, even yesterday's friends. aircraft from Ft. Bragg, increase the I roops and apply psycho­ Yesterday's friends have become today's carpers. Those logical pressure on us; so, that was typical. who complain that everything was done by dictates, were the In our analysis of the conditions at the time, we did see most dependent. And how they loved those dictates! Now an invasion as one of the possibilitibs. But we dismissed it, they yearn for that, because it meant discipline, understand­ because of the laws, the treaties; th t is, why make treaties? ing, order, and also that promises were kept. Now, you can't Treaties exist to prevent abuse by �h e strongest, to prevent believe the promises. invasions, wars. Upon what can I weak country base its Now, they are called the "I don'ts." "I don't even remem­ security, the preservationof its exi tence? Upon an interna­ ber," they say. "I didn't even know him. I wasn't even his tional treaty. We had that life preserver, an international friend." There are many who say, "No, I was just his acquain­ treaty, but they tore up that life preserverby force. tance. I was just a friend of the family. I didn't, I didn't. I didn't even speak to him, I didn't even phone; never even EIR: What will happen with the c nal now? Now that the spoke with him. I never even called him on the phone." These Defense Forces are gone, and the l is without protection, are the Panamanian "I don'ts." But the population has a long what is going to happen? memory, as well as a great capacity for silence; they don't Noriega: We can see what is step by step. It is expose themselves to be exterminated, but they have a great capacity to wait and to know at what moment to apply their great power of decision, which is precisely at such small moments as the elections, or in such great moments as upris­ ings. However, that is not at issue now; what is at issue now is the elections.

EIR: And your situation? You are in jail. What solution do you anticipate? Noriega: We know that it is God who makes the great deci� sions for all human beings. As the Bible says, as the proverb says, "Don't say tomorrow I shall, because everything is in the hand of God." So I believe that everything is in the hand of God and the most important, for which I give thanks to God, is that I am alive and well. Because only in Sheol, or death, can one not praise God or do anything. But I exist, thank God.

EIR: In a recent interview, you said that you never believed the United States would invade. Why not? Noriega: Because there exist the rules of the international community, the rules of respect for relations among nations, where there are procedures for declaring war and for doing As the dy ing palm tree in the comer this is not Bosnia, but anything and to prevent a treacherous invasion, another Pearl the poor neighborhood of Chorrillo City, destroyed by Harbor. Because what they did with Panama was a Pearl U.S. bombers in the 1989 invasion. tes are that 4, 000- Harbor. They called the day Pearl Harbor was bombed a Day 7,000 civilians were killed in the

EIR September 17, 1993 Interview 55 the intention of the United States to remain after the year2000 Would you like to commen�? in the most important area - the most strategic for them - of Noriega: Nothing the United $tates does is by accident. I the American continent, which is the Isthmus of Panama. believe that one of the reasons t�at the meetings of the Tripar­ They are obeying their own interests. The Tripartite Commis­ tite Commission have been pro�nged is because other inter­ sion to study a new canal or a new set of locks, which I ests, besides Panama's, are invplved, such as the U.S. trade denounced in an earlier interview,is being reactivated. There rivalrywith Japan. Recall that t�e United States was never in is a hidden agenda behind that reactivation, under the table, agreement with Panama's decis�on to invite Japan to join this and that is that they want, on the basis of a new set of locks, commission. It was because �f consistent pressure from, or a new canal, a new treaty. They are trying to get this first, Torrijos, and, later, myse�f, that Japan joined the plan- through with dependent governments, servileto their orders, ning for a new canal. i governments lacking in patriotism, such as those they are imposing in the region. These are their "yes men." EIR: Of course, the question (>f Panama has concerned all Look at the polls that are coming out now: that the people of Ibero-America. That is wh�the event called "Toward a want the gringos to stay, want the bases to stay. The bases Second Amphictyonic Congre�s" was held in Panama, at don't leave anything. They don't leave us dollars, just pain. which integration of the continert was promoted, to carryout This is clear enough afterthe School of the Americas and Ft. the dream of Bolivar, of San M�rtin, to have Ibero-American Gullick leftPana ma. They said everything was going to fall unity against the Internationa Monetary Fund, against the apart. But the only thing the Americans bought there were debt problem, and against the 0 superpowers. At that time, vegetables; that's the only thing, green vegetables, which you helped, sponsored, and sh� red our efforts. What do you they got from our Chinese truck farmers. But eggs, milk, think of that meeting and of a fossible Amphictyonic Con- bread, ice cream, everything was brought in fromthe United gress in the future? : States. They paid labor minimum wages. So, the military Noriega: The Amphictyonicq ongress was held at a critical bases are no great bargain, at least, not for Panama, and less moment for U.S. relations vyith the countries of Latin so, because payment is not per military base. There are seven America, where the "new ord�r" had already begun to be military installations, but there is no payment per base. The imposed. The resolutions and concepts elaborated there bases are free of charge, they are given in conjunction with should be looked at again, andiwe would findthat all of the the treaty with the United States. presentations were not far off:t):om what we are seeing four ' Now, there are no longer seven military bases. What we years later in our land and in tin America. now have is a country which is a single militarybase of the We believe that the spirit of olivar, the ideas of Bolivar, United States, a colony. In Panama, the President is a United should continue to be an inspir; tion, a beacon for the strug­ States governor. gles of the Americas, and that t�e phrase of Bolivar continues The concept of a sovereign nation that determines its own to be in force: "The United �ates seeks no friends, only destiny no longer exists. Why? Because we are an occupied servants." That is what Bolivbr said, and it remains true country. Until a generation of patriots comes along with a today. i conception of a single territory and a single flag,we cannot But I can assure you now! that if you wanted to hold talk about a freeand sovereign co.untry. another Amphictyonic Congr�ss, they would not allow it because it is subversive ....The same thing happened to EIR: We have carried out numerous studies, and, as you Bolivar: When he tried to do t e same thing, he wasn't able �I know, we have proposed a sea-level canal. We think that the to attend the first congress. I invasion and everything that followed was carried out in large i part to prevent such a project frombei ng constructed at some EIR: Here in the United Stat�s, Lyndon LaRouche - also point, given that such a project would not be a point of control from jail - has launched a maj�r campaign against the indi­ for the United States, but would be something else, for which vidual who founded the Ku Kluk Klan, the Confederate Gen. another kind of institution would be needed, a differentkind Albert Pike, who has a statue inihis honor in JudiciarySquare . of relationship between Panama and the international com­ in the U.S. capital, Washingtorl,D.C. But the establishment munity. and the U.S. authorities oppos� removing this monument to We also think that much of this ecology issue is nothing racism from their capital. I but a campaign to say: "It can't be done, it can't be done." In Panama, the United State� also imposed a racial system Because this ecologystuff comes from the United States. It in the Canal Zone. What can yqu tell us about this? was also said that the current canal was going to cause serious Noriega: The racial question lS still veryfresh in Panama. ecological problems. But no such thing occurred. We also There are many, many Panam,nians who suffered segrega­ think that it has to do with geopolitics, the question of Japan, tion under the "Gold Roll" an� the "Silver Roll," where the because the United States doesn't want Japan to acquire "Gold Roll" was for the whites� and the "Silver Roll" was for greater trading power. the blacks. There were reside�tial areas like La Boca, La

56 Interview ; EIR 17, 1993 I September I There ' will be a ''vengeance vote" in 1994 from Chorrillo fo r every bomb that imperialism and neo-colonialism dropped on the wounded fa therland: on Chorrillo, on Rio Rato, against Colon. For every death there will be 50 votes against.

Boca Town, Gatlin Lake: All these areas were for the black are afraid of its hide." They are afra.d of me. That is why people. They were isolated, in the wild Panamanian jungle. they don't dare seek my extradition. The whites, however, lived in Clayton, Albrook, in all the It is a total contradiction: They wllnt to carry out a high­ other bases and areas that were more comfortable, with ocean profile political trial, because they hope to win the elections views, etc. Panama is very awareof this racial discrimination with this trial. The lawyersthey have �re all candidates, and by the Americans, which still exists, because, in the Canal they are afraid of the words and of th() truth of Gen. Manuel Commission, there still is racial discrimination when it Antonio Noriega, who is alive and !Who has a very good comes to appointing Panamanians, I am told. The better memory. salaries and greater wage increases go to the Americans, and Among their contradictions is the {act that I am not impli­ not the Panamanians. The best options for promotions go to cated in the deed. There are about a dozen people under the Americaas, and not the Panamanians. So racial discrimi­ indictment. They dragged me into it, because they wanted to nation continues. raise the trial to a level of importancer Were it not for me, it would just be another trial: Someone; is dead, and someone EIR: Col. Mohamed Ali Seineldin was also in Panama. committed the crime. He was Argentina's military attache in Panama, and then a Why, then? I have nothing to do with the judicial or legal military adviser (I believe that was his official title according aspect, because I wasn't there. Because I was not the chief to the Argentine government) of the Panamanian Defense of the unit at the time, I was not responsible for what was Forces when you were commander. Today, Colonel done or not done. I was in Europe at the time. It was not Seineldin is a prisoner and is head of the Movement of Na­ hidden, but on an official mission planned seven or nine tional Identity and Ibero-American Integration. Would you months earlier. like to make some comment about his work and his phi­ Second, the specific case of Mr. ]Hugo Spadafora, as is losophy? well known, stems from his psycholQgical profile. The man Noriega: Colonel Seineldin is a military officerwith depth, had belonged to mercenary guerrilla�; he started in Guinea­ a visionary, one of those military officerswho are ahead of Bissau, went on against Somoza on t�e side of the Sandinis­ their time, who live in the wrong place and time: He belongs tas. He broke with the Sandinistas afrer they came to power, to that race of military men, and that is why his problems and allied with Commander Zero [Epen Pastoral. Later, he stem from honest conceptions and his intellectual capacity, breaks with Zero and ends up fight�ng against everybody. from his desire for change, from his profound Christian So we can see how the number of international enemies he sense, from his spirituality as a man of arms. And that is why accrued was growing. he was betrayed. He then seeks help from countries in Africa, such as from ...But I believe that he still has many pages and words the Palestinian liberation groups; he t�kes money from them, to write and say in Argentina and for Argentina. and seeks to launch a guerrilla war in Guatemala. But he doesn't keep his promises to the Palestinians. EIR: Returningfor a moment to the situation in Panama. I Thus, a whole train of people begins to trail him, seeking understand that you requested that the current Panamanian either their money or the fuifillmellt of a mission, or the government allow you to testify in person in the Spadafora weapons he sold them. Later he gets .involved with the Con­ case, in a trial where you are under indictment, but that you tras and makes an alliance with the U.S. intelligence agencies were told no. Can you tell us a little about the Spadafora and gets involved with the arms-for-drugs trade. case, why they refused you permission to testify in person, From such an environment of qonfiict, what could be and why they don't want General Noriega to speak in expected? It could be expected that the many enemies he was Panama? creating in his wake would not allow him to die of a common Noriega: Let me answer the last one first. They don't want cold. What I want to explain is that he had created so many me there, because they are afraid of me. As a Panamanian and such powerful international enemies, that his only refuge told me the other day, "It looks like they killed the tiger but was Panama; because he went to Panllmaand was in Panama,

EIR September 17, 1993 Interview 57 and nothing happened to him there. Nothing ever happened mation of the "monster" that they wanted to create, which to him inside Panama. was Manuel Antonio Norieg�. So they presented it as some­ The circumstances of the case are very problematic to thing strange, mysterious, which controlled the entire Latin explain now, because, at that time, the family, and especially American militarycommuni �. his brother Winston Spadafora, didn't want the Defense That is why they keep inSisting on this. But if that were Forces to carry out the investigation which it was their duty true, Bush would have put OW name on the last pardon that to do. He preferred to be subordinate to U.S. dictates, and he he issued in December; he would have listed the name of turnedthe death of his brother into a personal business, where Manuel Antonio Noriega. The proof is that they didn't put he gained economic backing, political prominence, etc., my name on the pardon. The conclusion? Two plus two through contact with the Americans. But he never loved his equals four: I am not one of their CIA outlaws. brother. He didn't love him while [he was] alive, and he only used him dead, as he is using him now, as a political cause. EIR: This leads me to another question: your status as pris­ Winston was only Hugo's half-brother, since their father had oner of war . Does the United States respect that status or not? three wives. What is happening in that regard? This is the situation. There are more details which I can't Noriega: Thanks to my lawjers' actions, the United States discuss here, but I have more details which I want them to has obtained assurances for tiheir own troops, because they hear there, but they are afraid of my words. The family of can now claim that they recognized the status of prisoner of Winston Spadafora is the only one responsible for the truth war and demand certain con4itions for the imprisonment of not coming out as to how and why his brother died, and who their soldiers. Because of th¢ court's decision, the Geneva ordered his death. Convention is, as the Ameridans say, the "law of the land," a law of the United States republic, a law they have to comply . EIR: During a recent television program,they again insisted with. you supposedly had all these relations with the U.S. intelli­ We are constantly fightin� to have that status respected in gence community, in particular with former CIA director its entirety. But, honestly, we have encountered tremendous William Casey, and with others also, such as Bush. Why do ignorance of the problem, of this document which is of such they continue to insist on this? importance, and we were tM first ones to bring it before a Noriega: During that TVinterview, my fullanswer was not court. There have been a series of violations since the first presented for technical reasons. The subject continues to moment in which I was capttred. There have been a series come up because that was the charge they made against me of violations of the laws signed by the United States. to distort my image as a leader and a nationalist. So, they threw in this stuff on subordinations, the payroll of the Cen­ EIR: General, you know ourmagazine very well, andthere­ tral Intelligence Agency, etc. fore, you have an idea of whQ our readers are. Do you have It is true, that on the specific orders of the commander­ any special message for them� in-chief of what was then the National Guard, Omar Torrijos, Noriega: Your magazine already serves as an archive of I was the liaison with [the CIA], as there are persons in charge political analysis, of documentation where we can not only of liaison in every single armed institution. In Panama, Tor­ follow the course of history, but also predict and determine rijos chose me. Why? Because in 1969, he accused the Cen­ the futureof historic developments. You were the firstto talk tral Intelligence Agency of attempting a coup against him, about the "new order." You were the first to talk about the on Dec. 16, when they had tried to overthrow him, while he contradictions within Russia � ..in which they themselves was in Mexico. I guaranteed his return; I ensured his return. carried within them the seed of their own destruction. And At that time my military rank was that of major. I didn't we see how your analysts, YOllrresearchers provide a founda­ know about the CIA or any of that stuff. tion of great value for thosel of us who love to undertake General Torrijos threw them out of Panama, and then he geopolitical, socio-political, and economic studies. allowed them to returnon condition that they could have only one channel of communication, that they could not have any EIR: What other messages might you have for all the other channel of communication with any officer except Manuel Ibero-American compatriots,! including military men, who Antonio Noriega. I was not a covert agent, nor hidden, or are today prisoners in different countries, in Venezuela, Ar­ any such thing. The entire military community knew that I gentina, the companions with Whom you studied in Peru, and was the liaison - and not just Panama's military community, so forth? but internationallyas well. Noriega: The last thing I wolilld say in this pleasant meeting Thus, my relations with them were that of a Panamanian is to the Latin American military men who are suffering professional, with their institutions. But they - since the CIA persecution, whose principlesland dreams of carryingout the is not sacred or the fourth gospel found in the scrolls of patriotic role of the armed forces in the development of their Jerusalem - distort this. It filledthe need to increase the defa- country are being frustratedl All things pass, everything

58 Interview EIR September 17, 1993 Th e Un ited States invaded Panama "becausethere is a canal there, and it is of strategic interest to the United

2000, " charges Noriega. changes and evolves, and every defeat, every fall finds a new the best encouragement for a future wealth, which is the impulse to rise with still greater force. united again around a truly free and Panama.

Remember, if we had never learned to get up again after Above all, I cannot fail to ,uv."",-" , that the best soldier, falling down as children, we would never have learned to the best warrior was the P woman. I bow with walk. So, too, as a military prisoner under any situation, one respect to the Panamanian woman. Panamanian woman learns that there are many hearts throbbing in a psychic unity, came through when the men could fulfill their mission, that injustice cannot endure, cannot last. because they were a more direct of persecution. The In my mind's eye, I can see Seineldin freeat the Plaza de Panamanian woman went out into , was the firstto Mayo, receiving the applause of his countrymen. I can also cry out. She was brought to the AnJericans' concentration see the soldiers of Peru marching toward the liberation of camps and yet continued to fight. �he has kept alive the their Indian people; and I can also see the Venezuelan military flameof freedom, and of protest, and of dignity. I offer the properly using their oil for the benefit of their country, and Panamanian woman as a model for L�tin America, and also going beyond the errors and the right decisions dating from as a model for all the armies and all th military organizations the period when [President Col. Marco] Perez Jimenez was of the American continent. . overthrown. After this dark night in which we nationalistI military men I can see the next target of destruction, which is the and our families are submerged, the r�splendent sun of truth Honduran Armed Forces. I see them all playing their rightful and revenge will come. As Gen. Ch�rles de Gaulle said to role in their nation when it is discovered that the democra­ Nazi-occupied France: Quai qu 'if ah-ive, fa ftamme de fa cies - imposed, encouraged, and financedas political parties resistance fra m;aise ne doit pas s'et indre et ne s'eteindra by the imperialist governments -carry within themselves the pas ["Whatever happens, the flameof the French resistance seed of their own destruction. must not go out and will not go out"]. ITust as Montgomeryin To Panamanians: The corporal, the private, the sergeant the desert told Rommel, "Take care df my headquarters, for who is imprisoned in Modelo Jail; those officers, those colo­ I will soon be back"; and as General MacArthur said as he nels, those men who preservedtheir dignity, as well as those fled the Japanese in the Philippines, (I shall return," so too who lost it; their experience, the blows they suffered,and the Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega declares from this platform, disillusionment of those who supported the invader, will be and with faith in God, "We shall retu n."

EIR September 17, 1993 Interview 59 �TIillNational

LaRouche movement vows to save U.S. fromunr aveling by Marianna Wertz

Assembled under a banner reading "Historyas Science: Get politician, the statesman, the physician of economy, who can the Devil Out of Davenport!" the Schiller Institute and the offera cure for this dying wotld." International Caucus ofLabor Committees - the philosophi­ laRouche warned that "in the worst case scenario, the cal association founded by Lyndon laRouche - met in north­ United States begins visibly td disintegrate as a political orga­ ern Virginia on Sept. 4-6 for their annual Labor Day con­ nization within approximately three years. . . . If the disinte­ ference. gration process is not prevented during this year, the coming The primary theme was laRouche's latest book-length 12 months or less, then the disintegration will surely occur essay, "History as Science: America 2000," in which the by the end of this century." As causes, he pointed to the American statesman and political prisoner Lyndon emphasis on "radical free trade, radical deindustrialization, LaRouche warns, as he did again in keynote remarks deliv­ and radical environmentalisqI,"which, he said, "have sys­ ered to the conference by audiotape, that the United States tematically destroyed the economy of the world - especially could disintegrate as early as 1996, just as the Soviet Union those aspects of the economy which depend upon the technol­ did in 1989-90. ogyof westernEurope and North America." Two themes provided the counterpoint. First was the With "deficit reduction as the primary goal of govern­ battle, inspired by LaRouche, against the satanic New Age ment," laRouche said, the gQvernment has responded to this culture epitomized by "outcome-based education" (OBE) crisis with a "stronger dose of the disease that is killing subversion of the schools, and the suicidal decision of the us." A malthusian population policy -with a growing older citizens of Davenport, Iowa to refuse to build levees to con­ population and shrinking birth rate - has resulted in a col­ tain the Mississippi floods- because such levees might lapse of the entitlement programs, unable to support this threaten the riverboat casino gambling business. Second was "tilted" population pyramid. This is combined with the "sa­ the great significance of the just-concluded Israeli-Palestin­ tanic" outcome-based education, in which our "high school ian peace plan, whose strong emphasis on economic develop­ matriculants are savagely more poorly educated . . . than ment bears the imprint of LaRouche's decades-long influence those of the pre-1968 generations of students." (see Feature, pp. 18-35). In that spirit, the conference adopt­ ed a resolution to initiate a new forum for Christian-Muslim The spirit of the Golden Renaissance dialogue on the same principles that sparked the 15th-century LaRouche then elaborated his "Historyas Science" the­ Renaissance. sis, that the "magic recipe" of the Golden Renaissance, which laRouche's essay appears in the Fall 1993 issue of Fide­ occurred as a direct result of the 1438-40 Council of Florence lio, the quarterly journal of the Schiller Institute. Veteran under the influence of Cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa, reversed civil rights leader and Schiller Institute Vice Chairman Ame­ the collapse of global population during the previous Dark lia Boynton Robinson introduced laRouche's keynote: Age. "Lyndon LaRouche is no ordinaryman . He is 71 years old. That "recipe," upon which the 15th-centuryRenaissance He is in prison for life, yet he is more free than you or I. . . . was based, LaRouche said, is the "European Christian princi­ While darkness is falling and midnight is approaching, there ple of imago Dei and capax Dei, that is, that every human stands at the door of the Capitol Lyndon LaRouche, the being, by virtue of possessing the potential for developable

60 National EIR September 17, 1993 About 800 marchers demonstrate in frontof the White House on Sept. 4, callingon President Clinton to free Lyndon LaRouche.

reason, is in the image of the Creator; and that every individu­ would only have given us a foretaste. " al, through use of the creative powers in a way which is But in the horrible fate of Bosnia HerCegOvina, she said, motivated by love of mankind, that such behavior is partici­ we have "the straw which breaks thef camel's back." "I be­ pation in the work of God, or capaxDei. " lieve that this genocide was - and i 1 - so horrible and such We are doomed, LaRouche concluded, if we reject this absolute proof of the failure of this political system which founding principle of civilization. Instead, he challenged the governs this entire century, that it will lead to the revelation

conference to "name the evil, attack the evil, eliminate the of the truth; and that the ugly face ofI geopolitics, of British evil, and definethe action which we propose to take to replace colonialism, of oligarchism, of the balance-of-power crisis the evil which must be removed. That is the spirit of the management and the idea of running the world through Golden Renaissance; that is the differencebetween success 'splendid little wars' on the back f innocent people; the and impotence." rotten image of man that goes with oligarchism; the ugly face of British liberalism - this all will bedome public knowledge, 'Blow the myth of the 20th century' and it must become public knowledge." In the second keynote address, delivered by videotape To thus "blow the myth of the 20th century"- to tell the from Germany, Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp­ truth about these underlying cause 1 of World Wars I and LaRouche called for her husband's freedom in the month of II - she said, is the "absolute prec9ndition for mankind to September, as the "signal of a change in U.S. policy" that is survive." She cited specifically the necessity of winning over required to prevent World War III. Having recently been in to this view of history,and to suppor� of Lyndon LaRouche's the former Soviet bloc, including in Moscow itself, Mrs. perspective for a European "Product ve Triangle," the forces LaRouche conveyed in sensuous terms the scope and seri­ in Russia for whom dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn ousness of the immediate crisis facing humanity, thus under­ is a prominent spokesman. "On'ce t�at process of manipula­ scoring the urgencyof her husband's warning. tion is clear to the Russians, everything changes," she said. "We have warned during the last months," she said, "that the non-action of the West in the face of the Serbian aggres­ 'The world makes more sensf' sion and the genocide against the Bosnian people would lead The four conference panels elaoorated the themes pre­ to the potential danger of World War III; that is exactly what sented in the keynotes. The first pa�el, "Renaissance Ideas we are on the verge of right now." What we are facing, for and How They Transform Physical Economy," dealt with instance in the growing conflictbetween Russia and Ukraine, the relationship between potential relatil ve popUlation density she said, is "several years of the horrible, bloody Nemesis of and the ability of civilizations to su ive. destruction, of a global Thirty Years' War of which Bosnia The second panel, "The Ideas of the Golden Renais-

EIR September 17, 1993 National 61 sance," featured what was the emotional peak of the confer­ ence: the hour-length videotape of the speech of Michael Documentation Billington, "Confucianism and Imago Viva Dei. " The tape was written and produced by Billington, with help fromother I inmates at the Virginia state prison to which he has been sentenced for 77 years for his political beliefs. Billington Greetings fr o Republic called for reviving the ecumenical method of GottfriedWil­ ti helm Leibniz and Nicolaus of Cusa to save China from the of Bosnia and� ercegovina twin evils of communism and British freetrade to which it is I being subjected today. This message was sent to th Sept. 4-6 conference of the This second panel laid the foundations for the alternative Schiller Institute by Dr. Nedzb Sacirbey, Personal Repre­ curriculum to the satanic outcome-based education. The four sentativein the United States 0 the Presidentof the Republic presentations which followed Billington's set forththe ideas of Bosnia and Hercegovina. of the Golden Renaissance in the work of Nicolaus of Cusa, Leonardo da Vinci, Georg Cantor, and Johannes Brahms, Thank you verymuch for yo interest and support for the ringing a note of strong optimism which one speaker, Jona­ people and the Republic ofBo ia and Hercegovina. Despite than Tennenbaum, expressed directly: ''We are on the brink the fact that our people are s ffering, being the victim of of a new Renaissance." aggression, genocide and cult ral genocide, our determina­ The third panel, "The Enemies of the Renaissance: Stop tion to defend freedom and 0 r right to exist is unchanged. Outcome-Based Education," featured Virginia gubernatorial The new facts are that we are £ ced to talk with war criminals candidate Nancy Spannaus, whose campaign is focused on and listen to the dictates of D °d Owen and Thorvald Stol­ eliminating OBE. Presentations on "TheRole of Freemason­ tenberg. Milosevic of Serbia d Tudjman of Croatia wrote ry" and "Freud and the Frankfurt School" zeroed in on the the plan for them that they are presenting to President Izetbe­ enemies of the Renaissance ideal. govic, with the clear intention pf forcing us to accept it. Civil rights leader and 1992 vice presidential running The plan is based on the Milosevic-Karadzic concept of mate of Lyndon LaRouche the Rev. James Bevel, speaking ethnic division, in the name or which they have committed at the end of the panel, emphasized the importance of acting "ethnic cleansing," and on Tdjman-Boban's appetite for as now on LaRouche's warning: "You say you have to hurry much land as possible, imitatipg Milosevic and Karadzic in home to attend to your affairs?" he asked the audience. "What the grabbing of land, and the imprisonment and expulsion of is there to go home to? You belong here, in this movement, Muslims. The plan is cruel aind unjust to the government all the time. LaRouche's vision has to be implemented while side, implementing the arms e�bargo only on us, in order to he is still alive." make us as weak as possible,: so that we will be forced to "Get the Devil Out of Davenport," the fourth conference accept their dictates. panel, focused on the Faustian "deal with the Devil" made Owen and Stoltenberg go f�r beyond their mandate, bring­ by the people of Davenport, Iowa, located on the Mississippi ing the concept of "reality on the ground," that is, the result of River, who chose to build casino gambling riverboats instead military supremacy of the aggressor, which is the result of of levees. This is the kind of evil that will result in the inheriting the aims of the comJinunist J.N.A. (Yugoslav Peo­ destruction of this nation, said speaker Marcia Merry, who ple's Army)with the assistance bf Owen, Stoltenberg and Bou­ is EIR's agriculture editor. Panelists also spoke on "Popu­ tros-Ghali, and. . .some comminding officersof the Unprofor, lism: Its Epistemological Roots," and "Brahms and the Civil beginning with Canadian retir�d General Lewis McKinsey, Rights Movement." who is now on the pay list of the Serbian lobby in North Afterthe keynote panel, most participants attended a rous­ America. Acting in such a way� Owen and Stoltenberg accept ing candelight vigil in front of the White House to demand the concept of acquisition of land by force, contrary to the freedom for LaRouche, on Saturday evening, Sept. 4. Later declared concepts of the U.N. aindEC and internationallaws. that night, a concert was offeredto conference goers at Bible We believe in a united Bosma and Hercegovina, with equal Way Temple in Washington, D.C. Music by Mozart and Ver­ rights for everyone, to be tM country of Muslims, Serbs, di was sung by a large chorus. The highlight was the appear­ Croats, and others. We have tolconsider the dictated partition, ance of Metropolitan Opera baritone Robert McFerrin and but with a chance for Muslim people to survive. An exit to the pianist Sylvia Olden Lee, performing gems from three genres Adriatic Sea will prevent her enlemies from locking up Bosnia. of Classical music: Italian opera ("Eri tu," from Verdi's Un Guarantees for implementatiori are · the essence, such as the Ballo in Maschera; German art songs (Schubert's "An die punishment of war criminals. There is no solution if all will not Musik" and the firstseven songs of Robert Schumann's im­ have civil rights, and the right to return to their homes, villages, mortal cycleof Heine songs, "Dichterliebe"); and American and cities in safety and dignity. i composer Hall Johnson's settings of several Spirituals. Thank you again. We nee� and appreciate your support.

62 National EIR September 17, 1993 Clinton strategic reviewignores Russiandang er, targets Third[World by KathleenKlenetsky

Leave it to the Clinton team. At the precise moment in history cuts would be made in Army divisions, aircraft carriers, and when the threat of World War III - triggered bythe reemer­ Air Force fighter wings. Modernization programs would be gence of an imperial foreign policyin Russia and the West's substantially scaled back, including iin the area of ballistic failure to act decisively in Bosnia - looms on the horizon, the missile defense, which would experience "sharp reductions," administration has released a proposal for a comprehensive according to a senior Defense Department official. revamping of u.s. military strategy, which blindly insists that the former SovietUnion no longer poses a threat to u.s. 'New threats' national security, and blithely asserts that the danger of a But, as administration spokesm€f1 have emphasized, it global conflagration has effectivelydisappeared. was political considerations which prCjlducedthe decisions on The administration unveiled the preliminaryresults of its force structure, and not vice versa. widely touted "Bottom-Up Review" of U.S. strategicpolicy Dismissing the danger posed by t� growth of an imperial and militaryforce structure in early September. "Great Russia" breakout, the "BottolD-Up Review" instead Over the next month or so, Ointon and his entourage are envisions the U.S. military engaging,in colonial-style polic­ slated to undertake an extensive public relations campaign ing operations along the lines of the iltvasion of Panama and for their strategic blueprint, including a host of speeches to the Persian Gulf war against Iraq, and �he Clinton administra­ be delivered by the President and his chief national security tion's continuation of these advenrures, as exemplified by and militaryadvisers. the current, foolish, U.S. military de�loyment in Somalia. As anticipated, the reviewproposes to continue the reori­ In a press briefingat the Defense pepartment on Sept. 1, entation in U.S. strategy which was initiated by the Bush Defense Secretary Les Aspin and General Powell identified administration. This reorientation is premised on abandoning the four "new threats" to U.S. national security that drove the Europe-centered defense strategy of the last 45 years, the Clinton administration's strategic revamping. emphasizing, instead U.S. involvement in "regional con­ "We began with the question of ' 'What are the dangers flicts,"primarily in Third World areas. that face the United States now in the post-Cold War, post­ As Colin Powell, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Soviet world?' And we came up e$sentially with four of Chiefs of Staffwho helped shape the policy, told a Sept. 1 them," said Aspin. , briefing: "The focus has changed away from just this Euro­ First, he said, is the "new nuclear threat -proliferation. centric orientation; we have to be readyto fightin a range of • . . The new nuclear threat is a handfulof nuclear weapons places, in a range of environments from low intensityall the in the hands of some terrorist organization or terrorist state, way up to the highest intensity." perhaps delivered byunconventional :means." Powell took great pains to emphasize the similarities be­ "The second thing that we decided was important," said tweenthe Ointon plan and Bush's. "Andit ought to be quite the defense secretary, was "that we needed to have a defense similar," he said, "because the world looks the same to us" establishment to deal with regional dangers. Saddam Hus­ as it did to the previous regime. Judging from the Ointon sein, Desert Storm, Just Cause with �oriega- these are the proposal, Powell's remarks were not intended simply to de­ exhibits. There is still in the world .oday a handful of bad flectcriticism fromRepublican quarters, but were an accurate guys, who, while they cannot threate� the continental United description of the direction in which the Ointon team is States in any meaningful way, they can threaten American headed. interests or American allies or Amerihn friends." The Ointon plan, which envisions fighting two regional The other two main threats to $e United States, said wars simultaneously (although whether this is possible under Aspin, include a weak U.S. econorqy, and "dangers to de­ the force structure proposed is a subject of hot debate) calls mocracy" around the globe. "There lS a tenuous movement for some reductions in militaryforces beyond those projected toward democracyin a large number qf countries in the world by the Bush administration's long-term budgets. Troop today," said Aspin. "If those were tp reverse, or if any of strength would shrink from 1.7 million to 1.2 million, and them were to reverse, it would prodJ!lce a different national

EIR September 17, 1993 National 63 security situation for the United States. . . . So whether or "The United States should take the lead in promoting the not these countries ...develop as democracies is important trend toward democracy," Halperin wrote. "When a people to this building and to our national security, so that dangers attempts to hold free elections &nd establish a constitutional to democracyis a. . . national security interest of the United democracy, the United States should not only assist but States." should 'guarantee' the result. Thosemeasures should be in­ stitutionalized in organizations like the United Nations and 'Democracy building' is the new imperialism the Organization of American 'States, which would be re­ For those familiar with the nasty machinations of the sponsible for carrying out missions to ensure the success of U.S. National Endowment for Democracy,which has used constitutional democracy." the guise of "democracybuilding" to foment political desta­ Halperin called on the "international community" to "es­ bilizations in countries that have run afoul of Anglo-Ameri­ tablish a process that parallels the provision of the U.S. Con­ can colonial policy, the Clinton strategy's emphasis on "de­ stitution, under which the federal government should be mocracy" should hold ominous overtones. The obliged to guarantee each stattl what was in 1789 called a administration plans to deploy somewhere on the order of $5 'republican' form of governmeI1lt." billion of the Defense Department budget to "democracy If the American people saw tl).atU.S. policymakers ''were building" and related activities. In their press briefing, both promoting democracy around !pe globe," Halperin argued, Aspin and Powell alluded to the new "democracy-building" "they would be more likely to !lupport American policy with role which the U.S. military has begun to take on, pointing financial commitments and mili/(lry action when necessary to to Somalia as a case in point. accomplishthose foreign policy pbjectives" (emphasis added). This emphasis on "democracy"(re ad: subversion) comes in part from Morton H. Halperin, Clinton's nominee to be PD·13 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Halperin's emphasis on the importance of the United Peacekeeping, who participated in the draftingof the admin­ Nations and the "international community" to U.S. strategy istration's strategic overhaul. goes to the heart of the Clinton "Bottom-Up Review": its Formerly a leading figurein the circles around the Insti­ reliance on multilateral institutions. The controversial Presi­ tute for PolicyStudies in Washington, Halperin's own views dential Directive-13, which has been circulating privately on the impo�ance of "democracy" as an instrument for ex­ for the past month, reportedly proposes giving even greater tending Anglo-American political power can be found in an authority to the U.N. over U.S. military operations (see EIR, article he wrote for the Summer 1993 issue of Foreign Policy Sept. 10, "Will U.S. Troops Enforce a Russian 'Monroe magazine. Doctrine'?") .

federal government would be manageable. Without that LaRouche: Gore-Clinton budget, you get to the point where the U.S. government starts to run on chits, because by law it doesn't have the plan is Just cosmetics' budgetary authority to continu¢ operation. So they had to get a budget through - no matter what was in it. In an inte1View with the radio program ''EIR Talks " on Clinton's earlier efforts to !get some kind of stimulus Sept. 8, political prisonerLy ndon LaRouche made these program going, even the most modest kind, was shot comments: down. His health plan is in deep trouble. NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Agreement] is a disaster; and EIR: I'd like you to comment on the recent Gore-Clinton in Washington, they're scrambling. They're trying to find proposal for reducing federal jobs by 250,000 jobs over some token they can throw ounhere, which, for its short­ the nextfive ye ars. It's supposedly a governmentreorgani­ term advertising and public relations effect, will restore zation plan. I know in the past, in 1984, you had a program some credibility of motion to the administration. They're for government reorganization. How does this compare to tryingto get some momentum going from some place; and yours? so far, they have failed to do it. LaRouche:It's just cosmetics. They're under tremendous This is just a game, it doesn't really mean anything at pressure. Clinton has not had a single success so far. He all, it just contributes to the overall disaster, it's just more talks about the budgetary bill he got through. That was no sliding down a greased slope tOward the precipice. That's success. The Congress and he both had to have a bill. No all it amounts to. One shouldn't get too excited about it ­ matter what was in it, they had to pass it, so that the maybe a little bit disgusted, but otherwise, not too excited.

64 National EIR September 17, 1993 became front-page news in the state press. While Spannaus and Allen were castigating the policy supported by Mary Sue Terry, Terry herself could only fidget nervously in front of aBE in the hundreds gathered in the industrial town, which has been theissue Va. hard hit by plant closings. In her own speech, Terry said nothing about education, except that her being unmarried did gubernatorialrace not prevent her fromunderstanding how important it is for by AlanOgden children to be in school. Fire Spagnolo At the Labor Day parade and political rally in Buena Vista, Nancy Spannaus has called for the firingof Joe Spagnolo, Virginia, Edward Spannaus, speaking on behalf of his wife, the state superintendent of public instruction, who is a lead­ independent gubernatorial candidate Nancy Spannaus, con­ ing enthusiast of OBE, and has challenged her opponents to demned the outcome-based education (OBE) plan being pro­ do the same. This urgent demand is putting the evil of spiritu­ moted by the state Department of Education. He attacked al child molestation into ever sharper1focus. The Allen cam­ Democratic rival Mary Sue Terry,who was also on the speak­ paign has replied that they will consider firingSpa gnolo, but ers platform, for her support of the Virginia scheme, which the Terry campaign has refused to reply. Even before the is called "Common Core of Learning." Nancy Spannaus, Common Core of Learning was fullytadopted by the current who was speaking at another Labor Day event in the coal Virginia administration, a New Age f'guidance curriculum" mining region of southwest Virginia, has made the defeat of was mandated in 1986 which put gr01l1p therapy and "guided OBE, which she calls "spiritual child molestation," a top fantasies" into everyelementary school in the state. The so­ priority of her campaign, and her supporters have made it a called Family Life Education, which is a pro-homosexual very hot issue in many places in the state. "future shock" approach to sex education, was pushed "Virginia is' one of the top three states in the Union in through statewide. Mary Sue Terry'. support for this OBE implementing OBE," Spannaus's husband said in his speech. package is considered a factor in her:weakening position in "The idea is to cast aside traditional leaming, and to empha­ the race. ! size feelings and self-esteem. The state Education Depart­ The potential for an effective fighJt against spiritual child ment says that the problem with education is the parents, molestation has been evident in the state this year. The Coun­ because the parents try to teach their children traditional ty of Loudoun, Spannaus's home cOl1nty, won a nationally values, right and wrong." Signs on the Spannaus campaign publicized court case when the American Civil Liberties car proclaimed "Virginia Is for Mothers," and campaign Union challenged the county's decision to permit seniors at workers distributed her literature along the two-mile parade a public high school to pray at graduation exercises. Republi­ route. Many people asked for extra literature, and a number can candidate for lieutenant governoIiMichael Farris reflect­ of public school teachers volunteered on the spot to work in ed the mood of some during his campaign for his party's the Spannaus campaign. nomination, by commenting that public education has be­ Edward Spannaus also questioned whether Mary Sue come "a Godless monstrosity." But only Spannaus's aggres­ Terry should even be included in a Labor Day event, the sive campaign to "take back public education" has challenged traditional kickoffof the Virginia fall campaign for the Nov. all Virginians to mobilize to crush the evil of OBE now. 2 election. He reminded the audience that as attorneygeneral, Seventeen independent candidates for Virginia House of Terry had sent 400 state police to crush a miners' strike, Delegates are running on the Spannaus slate. These candi­ where they beat strikers and handcuffed union picketers to a dates are walking their districts and Speaking at local meet­ chain-link fence during an electrical storm. Candidate Span­ ings to build a movement to cleanse public education of the naus has stressed in her campaign that the same corporate satanic OBE agenda. In Norfolk, Olle of Virginia's largest and financial groups which have pushed deindustrialization cities, school officials at one elementary school where an and union-busting are backing OBE, which is geared to turn­ OBE pilot program run by the New AmericanSc hools Devel­ ing out compliant and actually uneducated graduates, who opment Corporation is being implemented, were so alarmed will fit their idea of a post-industrial "global economy." at the opposition which Spannaus campaigners have orga­ Also speaking at the Buena Vista parade was Republican nized among parents, that they began going door to door to gubernatorial candidate George Allen. Allen chose this day "warn" people to stay away from the Spannauscam paign. On to issue his own attack on OBE, calling for scrapping "the the firstday of school, Norfolk school officials, complaining current system [which] is failing to provide the foundation about "outsiders," called the police ito try to stop an anti­ our children need to realize their full potential." Allen re­ OBE picket line near the school orgalIlizedby the Spannaus leased an educational plan which emphasizes testing for high campaign. The police who arrived, Ihowever, made no at­ academic standards rather than "attitudinal skills." His call tempt to stop the picketers.

EIR September 17, 1993 National 65 Schiller Institute concert honors anniversaryof Marchon W�hington

More than 3,000 people filledConstitution Hall in Washing­ nizers stated that it proved th�t there is a vast audience for ton, D.C. on Aug. 27 for "A Musical Celebration of the Classical culture there and in other urban areas across the Struggle to Secure the Inalienable Rights of Man," a Classi­ nation. The events are part ofithe institute's campaign for a cal concert sponsored by the Schiller Institute to celebrate cultural Renaissance in the United States. the cultural foundations of the civil rights movement and the 30th anniversaryof the 1963 March on Washington that Inspirational role models featured Dr. Martin Luther King, Jro's "I Have a Dream" The "Musical Celebration" featured performances of the speech. highest caliber by baritone RC\)bert McFerrin, the first Afri­ The unofficial kickoffof a weekend of events in the na­ can-American man to sing at Ithe Metropolitan Opera, who tion's capital commemorating the 1963 march, the concert debuted in 1955, months aftet MarianAnderson, as well as also celebrated the artistry of the great African-American by Washington favorite sopra�o Regina McConnell, Metro­ singer Marian Anderson, who in 1939 was denied the right politan Opera mezzosoprano J-nlda Harris, and the up-and­ to sing in Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American coming young singers Elizabeth Lyra Ross, Detra Battle, Revolution because of race. Denied the hall, Miss Anderson Melinda Young, Gregory Hopkins, and Reginald Pindell. appeared at an outdoor concert at the LincolnMemorial be­ They were accompanied iby the gifted pianists Sylvia fore some 75,000 people. Miss Anderson passed away this Olden Lee and Dr. Raymond Jflckson,who brought a tremen­ year on April 8. dous quality of poetic expressionto everyselection. Now, 54 years later, black and white, young and old, The artists performed the· traditional repertoire sung by people came from allover the cityand region, and from out Miss Anderson and her mentor, tenor Roland Hayes: bel of town,filling the cavernous hall to honor the memory of canto Italian opera, American !!ipirituals,and GermanLieder. that great artist and others who have since walked in her The program featured works of Franz Schubert, Giuseppe footsteps, and to hear what observerscalled the largest Clas­ Verdi, Johannes Brahms, Brahms's protege Antonin Dvo­ sical concert of its kind in severaldecades. rak, and the American spiritu�l composer Hall Johnson, who The house was fillednot because of expensive advertis­ had arranged some of his spirituals especially for Mr. McFer­ ing, but through determined community organizing by the rin. Dvorak, who taught in jthe United States from 1892 Schiller Institute, whose founder, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, is to 1895, was sent here by arahms to bring the European the wife of U.S. political prisoner Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. contrapuntal method, and fQund his most ready students Schiller Institute Vice Chairman Amelia Boynton Robinson, among black Americans, su�h as Harry Burleigh and his recipient of the Martin Luther Kingmedal and a board mem­ successor Hall Johnson, who illpplied to Negro spirituals the ber of the KingCenter in Atlanta, conceivedthe idea for the method which Brahms used to�transform German folk themes concert to coincide with the anniversaryof the 1963 march. into high art songs. i Dozens of Schiller Institute volunteers visited churches In addition, a movement of a Brahms sonata for violin and other community sites across Washington distributing and sonata was performed by tlheduo of Seth Taylor on violin concert fliersand ticket vouchers. Other people were invited and Monica Ripamonti on piano, who came from Europe to by letter and phone call, and word of mouth spread the word perform. The sonata was sQown to be the basis for two even further. The free tickets were gone by 2:30 p.m., and Brahms songs, which were al�o performed. when several hundred people had to be turned away, an The entire concert was pei"formed at the "Verdi pitch" of amplifier was brought in to broadcast the concert into the C=256 Hz, the original "natural" Classical pitch based on park across the street. the human singing voice at Which all the greatest 17th-19th The concert marked the second sell-out Classical event centurycomposers wrote their music, and at which Ameri­ sponsored by the Schiller Institute in Washington, and orga- ca's best singers such as Roland Hayes and Marian Anderson

66 National EIR September 17, 1993 continued to sing until after World War II. The Schiller Insti­ tute has been fighting since 1988 to reestablish C=256 (A=430 Hz) as the standard pitch, a fight joined by thou­ sands of leading musicians worldwide. The resonance and richness of sound resulting from singingat the lower pitch were evident to all.

Dick Gregory leads off The event was opened by comedian and civil rights veter­ an Dick Gregory, with a 15-minute satirical blast at our times, which had the audience laughing at the banality of "gay rights" and at the grotesque state of race relations in America today. Speaking of the 1991 Rodney King beating and subse­ quent riot last year in Los Angeles, Gregory commented, "If you see me out there getting whooped, don't stand there taking a video picture; come help me!" Following Mr. Gregory, Rev. James Bevel greeted the audience. According to notes in the commemorative pro­ gram, Bevel was the initiator of the 1963 March on Washing­ ton, as Direct Action Coordinator for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Introducing Amelia Boynton Robinson, Reverend Bevel pointed to the continuing injustice in America, naming the death penalty and political persecution in particular. Amelia Boynton Robinson, who just celebrated her 82nd birthday and has spent at least 50 years in the civil rights struggle, spoke to much applause about the necessity to con­ tinue that struggle: "The battle is still engaged," she said. Washington Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly's formal procla­ BaritoneRoberl McFerrin performs at SchillerInstitu te 's mation to the concert, presented to Rev. James Bevel and the concerlat Constitution Hall in Wa shington, D. C. on Aug. 27. Schiller. Institute by D.C. Commissioner of the Arts Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, identified the unique importance of the event: "In these times of crisis, this showcase of leading artists companied by the children of the R ed Elementary School performing the traditional repertoire of Ms. Anderson, as Band, followed by "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as well as Roland Hayes and others, will provide inspirational the Negro National Anthem, and an aDrangement by Sigerson role models for us all and especially our young people." of Beethoven's setting of Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy." The concert program also included greetings from Wyatt After intermission, the choir again appeared to sing the Tee Walker, former chief of staff to Dr. Martin Luther King, chorus of Hebrew slaves, "Va PensieFO," from Verdi's opera Jr.; from Rev. Hosea Williams, former Field General of the Nabucco, and Mozart's "Ave Verum " Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and from D.C. Senator Florence Pendleton. In addition, greetings were sent New level of harmony from such legendary musicians as sopranos Leontyne Price Despite, or maybe because of, t e historic character of and Shirley Verrett, baritones Sherrill Milnes and William the event and the unique quality of tliI e performance and the Warfield, and Dr. Willis C. Patterson, President of the Na­ audience, not a word of the concert has been mentioned in tional Association of Negro Musicians. the so-called establishment media. I The concert also featured a major facet of the Schiller As Schiller Institute chairman Helga Zepp-LaRouche Institute's drive to bring Classical musical literacy to all stated in her greetings to the event: i "How sorely we need Americans: a lOO-voice "concert choir" including numerous Marian Anderson's great example today, along with the children from the D.C. area. It included the Nevilla Ottley greatest possible number of artists to tread in her footsteps! Singers from Tacoma Park, Maryland, Schiller Institute Indeed, many former associates ofl Dr. King, who lived choir regulars, and volunteer singers from neighborhoods through those days, assure us that the state of civil rights and churches all over the District, many of whom are trained today is much worse than it was in the 1960s." This concert weekly by conductor John Sigerson of the Schiller Institute in and the Schiller Institute's movemen for a new Renaissance the Classical Italian Renaissance bel canto singing method. of classical culture is indeed bringing higher level of harmo­ The choir began with the "Star-Spangled Banner," ac- ny to the American people.

EIR September 17, 1993 National 67 Classical 'bel canto' singinghas become an endangered species by KathyWolfe

"How are we going to reintroduce the joy of singing which Registration, pitch, an" education was uniquely found in the old Italian school of bel canto? Or Panelists blamed the collapse of bel canto on ever-lower must bel canto be relegated to the museums of music histo­ standards for vocal training, *e crass commercialization of ry?" This and other questions on the future of singing and singing in ever-larger halls, aud especially upon the arbitrary music were debated byvoice teachers, singers, and musicol­ rise of modem pitch. Tenor Carlo Bergonzi's warning, at the ogists at "Studies in Bel Canto," a week-long 1993 Summer Schiller Institute's April 8, 1993 New York master class on Vocal Institute held by the Graduate School of Teachers the "Verdi A," that rising pitc� worldwide threatens the very College, Columbia University, in New York City on June existence of opera, was noted and echoed by several pan­ 21-25. elists. Convened and moderated by Dr. Jan Eric Douglas, presi­ Dr. Douglas opened withl a sketch of the history of bel dent of the New York Singing Teachers Association and canto, stressing that the term 4enotes in particular a "compo­ coordinator of vocal studies at Teachers College, the sympo­ sitional technique" for singing that was at its height during sium also featured music educator Craig Tjmberlake, the the 17th century. At that time, the composers themselves recently retired chairman of the American Academy of were trained as bel canto singers to write in a flowing,"vocal" Teachers of Singing; voice teacher and author Cornelius long line for all music, both vocal and instrumental. The Reid, who has just published his fifth book on vocal tech­ singers, too, were so well trained that they were expected to nique, Essays on the Na ture of Singing; and opera critic compose theme and variation� to complete a composition at Henry Pleasants, author of The GreatSingers. the performance by creatingfiPriture (embellishments) upon The speakers brought out the shocking truth that great the main theme. singing, and therefore great Classical music, is almost ex­ He also noted that the "aim of bel canto is to evoke a tinct, and is in far more danger than the spotted owl or other sense of wonder" through the Isinger's art, utilizing differing creatures bemoaned bythe media. vocal timbres, colors, delicacyof phrasing, and lyrical aban­ Mr. Pleasants went so far as to insist that "bel canto is don, which "dispense with r�alism", in the vulgar sense of dead -we may as well give up on it. It belongs in a museum, simple descriptions of the sensual, in favor of communicating as a historical relic. Nothing has been written since [Puccini's a world of musical ideas. last opera] Turandot by a composer who cares about Author Cornelius Reid, addressing the principles of bel singing." canto technique, stressed th�t, unlike today when teachers Dr. Douglas, who raised the questions above, and other "do their own thing," the oldlbel canto teachers held "com­ participants insisted that teachers and singers must do every­ mon principles," universal principles, which may be effi­ thing possible to reintroduce true bel canto. But all agreed ciently passed on to new geJllerations. He stressed that the that the crisis is severe. concept of vocal registers, registration, was the basic philos­ Bel canto, Italian for "beautifulson g," was developed in ophy of the Italian teachers throughout the era of high bel the 15th century Golden Renaissance to train singers from canto into the early 19th cent1llry. "As soon as the concept of childhood whose voices would be capable of a wide, three­ registration was discovered,'" he stressed, "the vocal results octave range with grace, speed, and agilityin all the ranges - of the teaching began to expand, and they developed more voices which last into the singer's old age. A familiar exam­ highly skilled singers. Befor¢ that, singing was very prim­ ple of bel canto is the seemingly impossible phenomenon of itive." the opera singer's voice fillinga huge hall without amplifica­ Reid elaborated his theory with many very useful older tion. The Classical teaching method is to place a candle recordings of great singers, well-known from his books, in before a student's mouth; a bel canto tone, however penetrat­ which each distinct human voice register corresponds to the ing will not move the flame,for the action is not percussive, use of a different muscle syatem which controls aspects of ' and thus virtually no air escapes the mouth. the larynx. A voice register is a "physical mechanism in the

68 National EIR September 17, 1993 instrument" which, when called upon, produces a different against the registers of the voice, and ,the vowel-pitch rela­ tone quality. Especially instructive was his comparison of tionships for which Bach, Handel, iHaydn, and Mozart the control over the voice by the conscious ability to shift wrote." The argument is sound, despite a factual error ac­ registers shown by the great bel canto tenor Tito Schipa. cepting Alexander Ellis's false 1885 a$sertion that Classical Schipa's version of Donizetti's aria "Una furtiva lagrima," composers wrote at A-422. It has sin<;e been demonstrated with its exquisite softnote s, was miles above a recording by that the Classical pitch was in the range of A-427-432, de­ Mario del Monaco in the more forced "modem" style. rived from the Classical C of 256 Hz. "Today's elevation of the pitch is monstrous," Reid also "The American Academy of Teachers of Singing recom­ pointed out, especially in its deleterious effects on voice mends that in concert singers be allowed to perform in the registers. "We're going to break our instruments and our pitch for which the music was writt¢n," the release con­ throats if it keeps rising." He noted that the differentregisters cludes. "This procedure will create an .uthenticityof perfor­ of the voice "reveal a certain texture," and if the texture that mance that will replace the false brittleness of many perfor­ the composer had in mind was designed at a certain pitch, mances of music of that period. There Iwill be a whole new, "and then you raise the pitch 4 or 8 Herz or more, you get to relaxed and happy audience for this beautiful vocal music, the point wh�re the texture that he had in mind is destroyed, when the tension of the high pitch is r�moved; a new depth because the voice produces another texture at the higher and warmth. In performance at the :original pitch, there pitch." should be a new, free outpouring of !beautiful singing, in As Reid puts it in a forthcoming interviewwith Fidelio which excellence, rather than exhibiti

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which performs as an ensemble," a D.C. One pIemberof parliament, who consid­ Federation of Musicians press release not­ ers LaRQuche's European "Productive Tri­ ed. "Musicians are not interchangeable wid­ angle" �rogram to be strategically urgent, Po e cites Washington on gets that can be moved around arbitrarily. told her lof the threat of a renewed war in p For an ensemble to work, the same musi­ Europe If the Clinton administration turns morality in politics cians have to be playing together regularly." its back On LaRouche's strategic ideas. Pope John Paul II quoted George Wash­ A unionist told reporters, "If you want op­ ington in exhorting Catholics to be aware era, it's a musical necessity. If you want a of "their social and political responsibilit­ one-night band for a bar mitzvah, don't go ies." On the heels of his mid-August trip . to the opera." to the United States, the pope urged in Management has hired Pinkerton securi­ his "General Intentions" for the month of ty, which is notorious for provoking vio­ Science adviser packing September: "Corruption exists in public lence against picket lines. "Ask any member staff�th enviros as well as private life, and Christ's cross of the United Mine Workers or the United Presidedtial science adviser John Gibbons, was raised against both. To separate our Steel Workers about 'Pinkerton' agents, and head of �e Office of Science and Technolo­ politico/social life from our religion is a they will tell you a horrifying tale of vio­ gy PolicY, is fillinghis top staff with greens. betrayal of Christ. . . . lence and intimidation on the picket line," a Gibbon�, who came to the job from the con­ "To be Christian is to forwardthe civili­ union spokesman said. Scabs are also being gressionktl Office of Technology Assess­ zation of love, the kingdom of the Heart of brought in to break the union. ment, which has a longstanding anti-tech­ Christ. Our lives are to be prayer and service nology,I anti-science bias, appointed Skip to that end. When formed by Catholic social Johns a� his number-two man to handle doctrine, our minds and hearts are attuned technoldgy and space issues. His choice for to Christ's Heart by the Holy Spirit. coordin�tor of environmental and energy­ "Promoting the common good is a most related iPatters is Robert Watson, an atmo­ noble form of charity. It is praiseworthy to u.s. prisoner's wife spheric �hemist from NASA whose experi­ enter politics, media work, and other social ence ini greenwashing comes from the careers to promote the dignity of persons, in Prague, Bratislava Ozone trends Panel. Watson chaired this the inviolabilityof life, family causes, reli­ Gail Billington, the wife of Michael Bill­ group and hand-picked its members to pro­ gious freedom, and the well-being of all. ington who is servingan outrageous 77-year duce a thoroughly dishonest view of ozone "We impose no Catholic doctrine; we sentence in Virginia, met with members and depletion which set the stage for the Montre­ urge the natural law ethic and religious free­ former members of govemment, parlia­ al Proto¢ol to ban such life-sustaining chem­ dom that surfaced through the ages wherev­ ment, and human rights organizations, and icals as refrigerants and firesuppressants. er higher principles prevailed. In support of with journalists in the capitals of the Czech Jane Wales, a journalist and arms con­ the body politic, 'Religion and morality are Republic (Prague) and the Slovak Republic trol activist, has been appointed as associate indispensable supports' (George Wash­ (Bratislava) in mid-August, in order to directorifor internationalaffai rs. Wales was ington)." brief them on the judicial barbarism in the the exedutive director of Physicians for So­ United States exemplified by the political cial Responsibility, a group that is anti-nu­ imprisonment of her husband and Lyndon clear, opposed to antiballistic-missile de­ LaRouche. Michael Billington is the China fense, and anti-defense generally. Another desk editor of Ell? which LaRouche found­ appoint¢e is Frank von Hippel, a Princeton ed in 1974. physiciSt who is publicly against nuclear Kennedy Center musicians Mrs. Billington was interviewed at power. Von HippeJ will be assistant director length by the leading government daily in for science and securitypolicy. strike in Washington, D.C. Slovakia, as well as some opposition pa­ Director ofthe Kennedy Center in Washing­ pers. She also gave a three-hour briefingon ton, D.C. Lawrence Wilker has tom up the the political persecution of the LaRouche center's expiring orchestral contracts, forc­ movement to the most important human ing the Kennedy Center Orchestra to begin rights organization in Slovakia, a transcript Pont an "unfair labor practice strike" with a full of which will be published by one newspa­ Du heir demands picket line on Sept. 2. The strike shut down per. After a heated debate in Slovak, the ouster of Skip Humphrey all three Kennedy Center concert halls. organization's chairman told her: "Mrs. Lewis du Pont Smith, heir to the Du Pont Management is refusing to continue paying Billington, you have totally convinced us chemical fortune and a political associate of a full-time standard orchestra, but instead that this is a huge case of political prosecu­ Lyndon, LaRouche, announced on Aug. 31 wants to hire players for each performance tion in the United States ....It is the irony that he and his wife Andrea will tour Minne­ as a "pick-up orchestra." of history, that, now, small Slovakia will sota fro� Sept. 9-19 to press for the investi­ A real orchestra is a "unit of musicians have to intervene." gation and impeachment of Attorney Gener-

70 National EIR September 17, 1993 I BTiejly

• NAMBLA'S first national con­ ference, set for Washington over the al Hubert H. ("Skip") Humphreym. Smith to the Police Commission on Sept. 1. She Labor Day weekend, was forced to . also announced the release of an extensive said that in she had asked for weekly 1979 findother rooms, when the Universi­ reports from the police, who were told to white paper, "Skip Humphreyand the Crim­ ty of the District 9f Columbia discov­ inal Abuse of Power: Case Studies of Cor­ ''work with all groups" in the Jewish com­ ered that a front :group for the North ruption, Coverup and Official Oppression in munity after a series of anti-Semitic inci­ American Man-lJoy Love Associa­ dents. Feinstein said she met with leaders of Minnesota. " tion had signed tilecontract, and can­ Chapters of the white paper include: the Jewish community,but that it was never celled its agreem�nt. Nambla's motto her intent "that police work with or establish "The Mob, the ADL and Skip Humphrey: is "Sex before ejight [years old], or a liaison exclusively with any one organi­ Plotting with Kidnappers"; "The Loot­ it's too late." ing of Minnesota from Kid Cann to Carl zation." Pohlad: How Organized Crime Became At the Sept. commission meeting, an 1 • head of the 'Respectable' "; "Skip Humphrey, Protec­ Arab-American leader called for Katherine PAUL WAtSON, radical ecologistlSea Shepherd Con­ Feinstein, the former mayor's daughter, to tor of Sex Criminals: The Jordan Child servationSocietY. is planning to buy remove herself as one of the two Police Abuse Coverup"; and "Humphrey and a surplussubmar�ne in order to harass Abortion: Case Study of a Political Pros­ Commission members looking into the case whalers and fisi)ermen undetected. titute. " of formerpolice inspector Tom Gerard, who TheGreenpeace ' -founderis report­ Smith and his wife were targets of a kid­ has been indicted for passing confidential ed
y eyeing a 19 8 Foxtrot-class sub nap conspiracy involving his father, along policefiles to Bullock and theADL. Kather­ � for his purchase, ccording to Putting with agents of the Cult Awareness Network ine Feinstein refused to step down, ac­ People First. ! and the Anti-Defamation League, in 1992. cording to the Examiner. The plot was foiled when the conspirators • LAROUcuI:ACTIVIST Shei­ were arrested and indicted by the federal la Anne Jones �ounced on Aug. government. Over 60 hours of undercover 31 that she will tun for governor of recordings and wiretaps were released by Illinois at the heaCi ofa statewide slate the FBI during the trial. Among those re­ for next year's el�ctions. Her running corded was Rick Munson, an investigator Kirkpatrick calls fo r mate is Chicagq resident Anthony in Humphrey's office, in a discussion with Harper. In 1986� two LaRouche as­ former Loudoun County, Virginia Sheriff's U.S. action in Bosnia sociates won the Democratic candi­ l Lt. Donald Moore, a ring-leader of the kid­ FormerU.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane dacies for lieutenant governor and nap conspiracy. Munsontold Moorethat the Kirkpatrick told Cable News Network on secretaryof state� causingan interna­ Minnesota Attorney General's office in­ Sept. 3 that unilateral action by the United tional furor amopg LaRouche's en­ tended to press criminal charges against States is the most important form of action emies. LaRouche supporters in the Midwest in or­ that could be taken to save Bosnia. "I believe der to stop their political activities. the United States should take, if necessary • CHRIS D�OGOUL, former now, unilateral action under Article 51 of head of the Atlaqta branch of Banca the U.N. charter," which guarantees a Nazionale del Uavoro, was forced state's right to self-defense. She called for into a plea bargain, when the new "militaryaction byway of air strikes, to lift judge in his case lruled as inadmissi­ the siege of Sarajevo for once and for all, ble evidence sh�ing that the Bush Mayor ordered S.F. and to drivethose people who are now occu­ White House kitew about BNL's pying Mt. Igman and other mountains loans to Iraq. Dr�goul pleaded guilty police to work with ADL around Sarajevo offtheir positions. If we do to one count of Wire fraud and two A recent San Francisco Police Commission that, we willsend a veryimportant message. counts of makinG false statements to report said that Dianne Feinstein, during her That's about the only important message we bank regulators on Sept. 2. termas mayor of San Francisco, had ordered could send right now, I think." the police to work closely with the Anti­ Kirkpatrick said that she and other • BUSH'S EI\tfBARGO against Defamation League and its paid informant prominent U.S. signers of an open letter to Iraq came under �ttack by Houston's Roy Bullock, according to the Sept. 4 San President Clinton are "calling for an end to NBC affiliate o. Aug. 31, which Francisco Emminer. The ADL is under any kind of pressures to force Bosnia to aired an investiga�ereport detailing criminal investigation in California for us­ agree to a so-called peace plan which would the suffering the pontinued embargo ing proprietarygovernment files to spyon its leave Bosniadismembered and simply some has caused the Iraqi people, and espe­ political enemies, including Jewishactivists isolated little mini-states. And we're also cially the children. The reporter as­ who disagree with the ADL's policies on calling for military action; in fact, for air serted that aint�n has not had the Israel. strikes, quite specifically, and then for arm­ courage to break!with his predeces- Feinstein, who is now a freshman U.S. ing the Bosnians so that they can defend sor's policy. i senator, denied the allegation in a letter read themselves."

EIR September 17, 1993 National 71 Editorial

When will the bubble pop?

The anomalous situation of the world economy puts us We're talking about a collapse of a better part of on a collision course toward financial collapse in the $10-12 trillion, which is tied up in purely financial relatively near term. The anomaly consists of the wid­ speculation, which has a turnover of $300-350 trillion ening gap between physical-economic reality, and the a year. For example, two-thirds of the U.S. currency ballooning volume of financialpaper. in circulation, is circulating outside the United States. The U.S. economy has been collapsing since about Wall Street will go, and all of the crazyYuppie dreams, 1970. We have been living on using up our previous which have seduced this nation for the past 10 years or improvements in infrastructure: water systems, such as so, will be gone. the levees which weren't there for the recent floods; When the Swiss gnomes' newspaper Neue Zurcher power capacity, which is running down; urban centers, Zeiting warns that September could be a month of fi­ which have been decaying for over 20 years. InEurop e, nancial collapse, no one with any brains could argue the breakdown came a little more slowly, except in with their general point. The only question is on what Britain, where the collapse probably started in the mid­ day the bubble will burst. Our financial system in its dle of the 1960s. present form - the present International Monetary Since about 1978-79, with deregulation and the so­ Fund system - will be as hopelessly shattered as Hum­ called Volcker high-interest rate measures, the U.S. pty Dumpty. has essentially destroyed the basic underpinning of the At the same time, the collapse of infrastructure, of economy, not only in infrastructure, but also agricul­ agriculture, and of high-*illed employment, in the ture and manufacturing. As Lyndon LaRouche put it United States, means that within one or two more cy­ in a recent interview, "It's hard to find a legitimate cles of budget-cutting nonsense led by fools like Phil manufacturing company these days. They have all been Gramm in Washington, the state and local government, taken over by corporate raiders who are simply looting and parts of the federal government programs, are go­ them. Like some grasshopper caught in the spider's ing to simply be shut down, because there's no tax web, and the spider comes and sucks its juices every revenue base to support them. If you raise taxes,you 'll now and then until it dies, our industries are being bled simply collapse the economy. If you don't raise taxes, by the big raiders and hostile takeovers." you'll collapse the economy. Meanwhile, on the purely financial side, we have Phil Gramm's policy of neglect and folly, and resis­ the biggest bubble in history, based on options and tance to any stimulus program to get the economy mov­ mutual funds and the like. In the past three years, our ing again or to get more skilled jobs created, goes along banking systemin the United States has mainly become with the collapse of education under the influence of a sucked-out husk used to conduit Federal Reserve outcome-based education or Core Curriculum, which printing press money through such places as Citibank, means the school system will produce unemployables. to feed this big derivatives-based financial bubble. The accepted wisdom . of the past 10-15 years in The financialbubble is the main cause of our federal Washington, no longer works; if we continue to try to indebtedness, contrary to those idiots in Washington apply these budget-balanqing reforms, as LaRouche who think that firingfederal employees is going to help points out, then about three years from now, at least in balance the budget. With the juice almost gone out of a worst-case scenario, the government of the United the real economy, there is nothing for the parasite to States will start to disintegrate, on the local, state and suck on, and the financial bubble is about to pop. It federal level. takes a big prick to cause a bubble to pop. But we're We have, this fall, the last chance to begin to turn coming up to that point of extreme instability, in which this around, to save our nation - and to save much of any slight disturbance could burst this bubble. the world.

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